I just finished reading One Laptop Per Child: Vision vs. Reality by Kenneth L. Kraemer, Jason Dedrick, and Prakul Sharma. It was interesting to me for two reasons. 1) A lot of the issues with the OLPC program that they discussed were the same points that I brought up a year and a half ago when we discussed the program in my Resources for Young Adults class. Things like access, support and training. 2) I have lived in several developing nations and it often seems that the great ideas of developed nations to 'bring the developing world into the 21st century' tend to forget that you can't really skip steps in terms of infrastructure. If there is little or no access to electricity it doesn't matter how efficient your laptop is. If you can't read it is very hard - if not impossible to utilize the internet. I am very interested to see where this all goes.
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