LXer: OLPC Nigeria One Year Later: Hard Lessons Learned
 

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Do you remember the massive press orgy a year ago when One Laptop Per Nigerian Child debuted at L.E.A. Primary School Galadima in Abuja Model Village? How the great Foreign God held high his gift of knowledge to the poor dark-skinned children of Africa, and OLPC proclaimed: "All of a sudden, School Galadima has gone from the age-old chalk-and-board teaching technology to the avant-garde one-laptop-per-child XO technology with cutting-edge features." Well let us take a look at the lessons a year of Nigeria has taught One Laptop Per Child.

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