ASS 2

Nicholas Negroponte the "indefatiguable leader" has created an affordable laptop for poor children all over the world . The purpose of his project is more educational than economical in comparison with the case of Bill Gates with Chinese. Yet , he is doing a very good job by making the PCs accessible by all children over the world at 100$ to help them to learn better and to have a better access to technology and information. The dark point in this white and positive image of this project , is that for example if Nicholas Negroponte target the poor children in Morocco . the first problem that he will face very low percentage of poor children that are going to the school , the second problem is the price of the laptop. Even if the laptop is at a symbolic price , he is not affordable by poor children and families in Morocco since they have other more important expenses for their survival and daily life. The third problem is that even if the laptop was for free there will be very difficult for them to use it for their own purpose . Instead they will learn to use inside the school , but then there will be no place for it in their life since it will seem as unnecessary tool for their parents. However, if Ihave an advice to give to Nicholas it will be to begin to first target the average class of Moroccan then after doing a local study of the country he can find a suitable solution to help poor people in the educational domain.