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Now the "teach a man to fish" credo is absolutely meaningless.


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http://www.dvice.com/archives/2012/10/ethiopian-kids.php

 

Dump off a 1000 customized Motorola XOOM tablets running a special version of Android in the middle of African villages and what do you get? Frisbees? Bum warmers? Light sources?

 

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ALL THOSE BEAUTIFUL MACHINES ARE GARDEN MARKERS AND TOMBSTONES NAO AREN'T THEY

 

No.

 

"We left the boxes in the village. Closed. Taped shut. No instruction, no human being. I thought, the kids will play with the boxes! Within four minutes, one kid not only opened the box, but found the on/off switch. He'd never seen an on/off switch. He powered it up. Within five days, they were using 47 apps per child per day. Within two weeks, they were singing ABC songs [in English] in the village. And within five months, they had hacked Android. Some idiot in our organization or in the Media Lab had disabled the camera! And they figured out it had a camera, and they hacked Android."

 

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Bwhawhawha?!

 

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Not bad for not being illiterate just a few months prior.

 

This is actually the first I heard of the OLPC project actually doing something awesome. They had a project with their "indestructible" laptop (which XOOMs are not) a bit ago that wasn't so much internet dependent as it was completely ad-hoc in the same way that piratebox/librarybox/meshnet stuff impresses me:

 

http://one.laptop.org/about/specs

 

These XOOMs seem to be taking it another direction, though, instead of building their own local networks are connecting to the world at large if they've got some additional app support (because I doubt much development is happening there on the spot, seeing as a full environment (Mac, Windows, Linux, whatever) would be necessary to build and deploy. I bet they'll get there, though.

 

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Maybe a high enterprise such as Microsoft should hire one of these children for a job that way the world can be a better place, if that's possible, I've heard stories or children outside the rich homes getting jobs from things like these, I find amusing that the technology we use today can be founded into a way to learn something more than just a visual future, shit even a 9 year old can create using a single gadget could relate into a fortune.

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Hey,do you have 5 months of nothing to do and no camera to take a picture of the stuff youre not doing? Well,go ahead and hack into the OS of Android!

 

You all say it would be easy with that amount of time. Then consider they are just kids. Pretty impressive if you ask me.

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