[iDC] One Laptop Per Child - MIT/Negroponte Initiative

[Sam Ladner]

I can't help but think that OLPC is also pushing MALE American culture onto
kids. The research on the gendered effects of technology do show that women
tend often to be relegated to the class of "non expert" when technology is
introduced, while men become "experts."

I'm not a gee-whiz technophile (tho, it could be argued, a technophile).
What I see in these technological artifacts is a culture and value-system
that is not questioned in the West, much less it being questioned in a new
context.

Technology is not inherently dehumanizing or oppressive. But it is
subordinate to the political. I fear Fatima is right -- that all sorts of
unintended consequences will arise from questions left unasked.



On Dec 30, 2007 11:17 AM, Fatima Lasay <digiteer at ispx.com.ph> wrote:

> Negroponte and co. are pushing dangerous drugs in 'third world countries.'
>
> Microsoft Windows XP for the '$100 laptop' already nears testing phase and
> will be pushed to kids in our countries
> (
> http://www.gmanews.tv/story/71789/Microsoft-Windows-XP-for-the-100-laptop-nears-testing-phase
> ).
>
> And soon our kids will have even broader access to decadent Internet
> social
> networks as online video games are integrated in social networking tools
> (
> http://www.gmanews.tv/story/69824/Online-video-games-meet-social-networking-tools
> )
>
> Negroponte and co. are making it harder for us our struggle and efforts to
> become truly independent economically, technologicaally, culturally from
> the horrendous culture of Amerika.
>
>
> Regards,
> Fatima
>
>
>
>
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