Doesn't this smack of the whole Simputer fiasco all over again? By the
time they actually developed a working Simputer and gone to market in
India, the market had long left them in the dust.

I'm not sure the "build it and they will come" approach will work for
computers in education in the developing world at all. The Wired article
presupposes that you've actually got kids in a classroom who are missing
out by not having a computer to use, but in a lot of developing
countries, the major problem is that education simply doesn't reach
significant percentages of children due to social and political factors.
And that tends to disproportionately effect girls and women.

Duncan wrote:

>Ref: http://duncan.smeed.org/4519
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>Wired | What If Every Kid Had a Computer? <http://wired-vig.wired.com/wired/archive/13.04/view.html?pg=2> - The MIT Media Lab's plan for a $100 laptop
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