Design 21: Social Design Network

totally agree. thats what my family did. donate one abroad and one locally once you receive it. it will not be as useful locally if they don't have friends with one (for the networking capabilities). but still a great tool for internet, reading, music making none the less.

the laptop itself is amazing, i can atest. i work for the company that developed the operating system and we've got a couple floating around the office to play with. my roommate got a chance to see the things in action in brazil. amazing stuff really!

http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/07/25/inside-one-laptop-per-child-episode-04/

you're right... anyone that can afford $400 for a charity donation most likely already has a laptop (or more) :-)

why not "give one" (abroad) and actually give the "get" one to a poor kid in the US? With the opensource/developer forum OLPC hosts, the setup would even lend itself to a cultural exchange between the two children who receive the paired laptops through this initiative... and perhaps the donor can get updates on the kidos so they are still "getting" satisfaction from their donation.

I am in total agreement, this approach seems inherently flawed. I was enthralled with this concept initiative over a year ago, especially the way they were structuring the OS based on common symbols to help make the machines usage more universally understandable. I was not aware of this new development, thank you for that. I thought that this project had already achieved their funding efforts?! And I thought that the project was going to be able to get the laptops in the Hundred dollar range which makes me questions this $399 price tag for 2? Should it not be 4? If you have more information beyond the above please post that as well.

My friend (teacher) collects old computers and then repaired , then donate them to poor families.

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