XO One Laptop Per Child

XO Laptop Initiative
One Laptop Per Child

Approximately twenty years ago there was a major buzz across the country called “Digital Divide”. Digital Divide refers to the gap between those who benefit from digital technology and those who do not.

The poor were ignored because market forces assume that designing solutions for them would not be profitable. The results are that even where the poor are provided access to digital technology, it was low quality and merely localized versions of products and services intended for the rich. Although it may have been low quality they still had some form of technology.

Much like the Digital Divide’s approach the XO Laptop Initiative does have some very promising goal oriented results. From my perspective many of the world’s poorest and economically challenged countries have continued to perpetuate the same life style by hoarding their country’s wealth and not taking a reasonable approach to provide better living conditions for the mass especially the children. Providing children with access to computers will create a tremendous growth of knowledge with possibilities to change their country’s conditions.

While providing computers and internet access can definitely spur unlimited possibilities, one must also understand the value of remedying their hunger and health issues. How can one learn when hunger thrives? By not addressing the hunger and devastating health issues will only exacerbate their impoverish conditions. The real success can come to fruition only when the world hunger and health-care agencies partner with XO Laptop. It is this partnership that will vastly improve the speed of their success.