Lab+2

Lab 2*

OLPC’s mission is to provide a laptop to each child in developing countries, where poverty is a problem and offering OLPC would help them through their education life. Providing within this laptop is similar application such as ‘Microsoft Word’. Also provides networking such as locating other people who have the OLPC and showing with a little icon, representation what they are doing at that time.

The Phrase that was presented to us in the lab stated “ One Laptop Per Child is a Neo-Colonial Trojan Horse” would be a true statement in some context. Neo-Colonial generally means the interference of a third world country in helping/changing its original setting. Everyone know that Trojan horse originated from the city of Tory that was fallen from the attack of wooden Trojan horse that the city of troy thought was a gift from the ‘gods”. Instead the  Achaeans  warriors were inside ready to attack at night. Therefore with the One Laptop Per Child policy this is interfering with the natural order of the country that is developed.

Americanization is one cause of this since the OLPC is giving child a tool that would not be particular a custom to this area, like a virus this would spread breaking the culture apart. Like many countries that have gone through this from Americanization and Nero-Colonial, we need to take a step back and provide help first through food and shelter. Lastly children don’t need laptop at a young age but instead have them learn the basic of learning to read and write their language first. In North America, not so long ago laptop weren’t needed for children but now is a demand just for entertain instead of educational purposes.