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Accuses MIT and Negroponte of exploiting poor with OLPC

(iTWire 2007-01-19) Scandinavian-based aid organisation FAIR has accused the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative, orchestrated by Nicholas Negroponte and MIT, of exploiting poor countries and misleading them into taking a high investment risk for a new type of technology, the success of which is very uncertain.

FAIR, which which works towards the spread of ICT in developing countries, claims that OLPC appears to be trying to create a need which has not existed before and which does not exist at all in the world's richer regions. "Developing countries are thus being misled into measures which shift the focus away from their real needs," Fair has stated.

The OLPC program has been slammed as both costly, high risk and unable to meet the real IT needs of children.

Read more at iTWire.com.au

 
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