2008-07-09 10:30:02
As David Lemming explained to us in describing OLPC Oceania's participatory development model, the area colloquially referred to as"Oceania" is really a scattering of small countries, many with populations less than half a million, scattered across the Pacific Ocean. They may be beautiful tropical islands, but their remote locations mean Internet costs and quality of service can be shockingly poor. Which makes the progress of OLPC Oceania all that more impressive, and I believe a model for how a one laptop per child program should be implemented in resource-poor countries. 

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