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

[Peter Timusk]

I think a number of scholars have located the computer as military  
and male and this in fact this questioning is and has been going on.  
Where do we root the questions now though given that the digital  
divide may no longer apply to gender and race and age. I wonder if  
any one knows if income has changed. Gender has power in development  
talk and has even my green party politicians supporting war which  
seems over done.

I am a male long time computer user who once was glad his work did  
not involve computers but have since gone back to them now even my  
daily work involves programming them

On 30-Dec-07, at 11:36 PM, Sam Ladner wrote:

> 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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