Ethiopian kids hack OLPCs in 5 months with zero instruction
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Just to give you a sense of what these villages in Ethiopia are like, the kids (and most of the adults) there have never seen a word.
No books, no newspapers, no street signs, no labels on packaged foods
or goods. Nothing. And these villages aren't unique in that respect;
there are many of them in Africa where the literacy rate is close to
zero. So you might think that if you're going to give out fancy tablet
computers, it would be helpful to have someone along to show these
people how to use them, right?
But that's not what OLPC did. They just left the boxes there, sealed up, containing one tablet for every kid in each of the villages (nearly a thousand tablets in total), pre-loaded with a custom English-language operating system and SD cards with tracking software on them to record how the tablets were used. Here's how it went down, as related by OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte at MIT Technology Review's EmTech conference last week: Read More »
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