Comments on: UX WEEK: ONE LAPTOP PER CHILD

By: Pat J

Pat J — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 14:45:58 +0000

The child logo on the front does a handstand when the computer’s in use, too.

By: mercedes

mercedes — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 21:12:57 +0000

You will be able to get these in the United States, but you will have to buy two – one for you and one for a poor child in another country.

By: crzylady

crzylady — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:26:24 +0000

Ingenious. My family does support through the Christian Childrens’ Fund (because of the reputation for money management not the religion). And it’s amazing the things these families can buy with a $10 a month (the sponsorship money is money which goes to the improvement of the village while a gift goes directly to the family). Our last sponsor family was able to move into the city after about 4 months of the additional money where they would have better chance of supporting their family. So we’ll continue to do this and knowing that a company/program is interesting in giving these children tools to create a better life for THEIR children is amazing!

By: sue

sue — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 16:19:47 +0000

They just had a big news article on this a day or two ago. Very interesting!

By: Erica C.

Erica C. — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:46:03 +0000

This would be great for the schools here in S.C. In my rural community, the kids don’t have much access to laptops or home computers. I just got my 12 year old her first laptop and she loves it. I’m getting the 7 and 8 year old one for Christmas. My husband doesn’t like the fact that there will be 4 computers in the house, but what does he know!!! LOL. I would love to gather information about this and express it’s importance to my local school board. Thanks for the info!

By: aimee/greeblemonkey

aimee/greeblemonkey — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 19:58:25 +0000

I knew the water and food question would come up. But I am totally on board with “do what you know how to do.” We all have different talents and each talent is a valid answer to helping our neighbors. Besides, this is a new adaptation of “teaching a man to fish.”

Thanks for sharing, Maggie.

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OLPC. « The Short Fat Kid — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 20:22:30 +0000

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By: Mrs. Kennedy

Mrs. Kennedy — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 16:18:00 +0000

That’s a good response to that sort of criticism, especially if you can bounce it back to the Cindys of the world (nothing personal, I’m just using your comment as an example) and say, “I see you’re concerned about clean water, so I assume you’re putting some energy into that problem, and not just looking for holes in my project.”

By: Maggeh

Maggeh — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 03:52:52 +0000

The “you’re not doing the right project” thing comes up for them a lot. The founder’s answer is that he’s doing what he knows how to do to help.

By: cindy

cindy — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 03:34:18 +0000

What about the fact that these children are starving, have no electricity, fresh safe drinking water etc…. what is more important? a laptop or water??