article on OLPC published and available!

[chimerically]

The article on One Laptop Per Child that I co-wrote with Mark Warschauer has been publicly released! You can download it at http://jia.sipa.columbia.edu/files/jia/033-051_Warschauer_bluelines.pdf.

Can One Laptop Per Child Save the World's Poor?

Comments

[etler]

Congrats! I'll add it to my reading queue.

[starchy]

Congratulations! This is great stuff. I found the commentary on how OLPC distributions can actually increase economic-education divides was particularly thought provoking.

May I share the link?

[chimerically]

Sure -- it's all public now!

[rubrick]

I read most of this (skimmed some parts). It's terrific. Bravo.

[jofish22]

yay! congratulations, and congrats in particular for saying very explicitly and very early on in the article just how wrong NN is.

[vexillate]

This is one hot (sexy) abstract. I honor you for putting your reputation and name behind the truth. Facts lead to conclusions which are unsavory to some. Yet facts rule the Universe. That some facts are unwelcome, is an irrelevant fact.

Recently I revealed the fact that our company effort to mount a BETTER sales campaign had resulted in 5 sales during the Christmas season, vs. 100 sales the previous Christmas season under the old system. That fact was not welcome to the people who had proposed the "better" sales campaign. They felt they had failed, and proposed many many-many-many-many reasons why the failure was not the result of the BETTER sales campaign idea.

What must be learned, what is difficult that to learn, is that the campaign failed, yet the BETTER campaign idea was still a good idea, regardless of its subsequent failure. I want to encourage new ideas, yet still accept and learn from failures.

I am reading the entire article you wrote, now.