Nicholas Negroponte must be crazy, writes Wayan Vota. "That is the only way I can explain his continued insistence on pursuing implementation miracles with his "Gods Must be Crazy" deployment plans," he says. Vota argues that Negroponte disregards "thought leaders who all agree that ICT should only be 10% of a solution - that infrastructure, maintenance, content, community, teacher training, and evaluation should command more attention and resources than XO laptops." And he cites studies attesting to the failure of laptop-only programs. As Ben Colmery writes, "Just inserting computers is not really a game changer. Not in my experience. Not when skills are not included." All this may be true, but I have to wonder, what would the impact have been had the OLPC been better technology?
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