This is our goal, to help educate the world. This computer can help for those that want it. They can now have access to the world and all the knowledge they want.
Despite the fact that neither the children,
their schools nor their parents will have anything to say in the
creation of the design, large orders of multi-million units are
planned.
Have they asked the people who are getting these computers what they want, maybe they would have some new ideas that woudl make the computer keyed more to what they want and need rather than to match them to the upper middles class.
It would seem apparent that serious
social research must be done to determine family, village and
societal attitudes before proceeding with a program like OLPC.
distribute them free to rural primary school children.
The computer comes with a wireless Internet connection and webcam despite its low cost, and is thought capable of withstanding wear and tear in the kingdom's rural regions.