Let them eat Cake

Let them eat Cake

Posted Jul 17, 2006 16:20 UTC (Mon) by forthy (guest, #1525)
In reply to: Let them eat Cake by botsie
Parent article: Interview: Jim Gettys (Part II)

This seems to be a common picture of the developing world: starving kids with flies around them. Yes, these starving kids with flies around them do exist, and no, they don't make up the majority of children in the developing world. And the main problems they have are caused by wars. So this is not the place where these OLPC laptops will go to.

The majority of the developing world has sort-of-clean water (you need to cook it before you drink it), just enough to eat (usually more healthy than McDonalds - too much to eat is worse than just enough to eat ;-), and so on. What's lacking there is education. And that's where the OLPC program tries to improve the situation.

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