Talk:OLPC Rwanda

basket case

I changed "thought of as a basket case" to "thought of as an economic challenge".

I have no idea why someone would post offensive material about a nation you are trying to help.... it reeks like sabotage to me. I suspect Intel is sabotaging the Wiki.

I'm totally serious, the amount of mis-information being spread about this wonderful non-profit humanitarian project amazes me. Especially those guys at www.olpcnews.com They are obviously paid by Intel to promote Fear Uncertainty & doubt about the OLPC project.

They claim to be an "independent" look at the OLPC project.

... but honestly, a professionally designed website, with huge bandwidth, tons of high-quality Tabloid-style articles bashing everything and anything remotely connected to OLPC.

Why is someone out there spending tons of his hard earned money & hours per day bashing a site he has no connection to?? doesn't seem right to me...

Rudeness and insensitivity does not equal sabotage. Honestly, the original was more factual. Equivalents might be "train wreak" and "lost cause". I suppose that "challenge" is on it's way to acquiring the same sort of rude and nasty connotation because it keeps getting used for places like Rwanda. Maybe next you'll switch to "differently affluent"? I offer "economic disaster" and "dysfunctional economy" as no-nonsense factual expressions of the situation.

As for olpcnews... like any Tabloid, they do ANYTHING required to stir up interest. Say, does the site have advertisers? (I'm not going there to check) Ad revenue would explain a lot, no conspiracy required.

"Never match wits with a half-wit." There is nothing to be gained by confronting those who are deliberately spreading misinformation about the project (regardless of what motivates them). Our best strategy is to put our efforts towards making one laptop per child successful. --Walter 06:41, 1 March 2007 (EST)

Wow, what a great compliment: "a professionally designed website, with huge bandwidth, tons of high-quality Tabloid-style articles." It always surprises me that y'all find my site is so insightful, influential, and to Walter's dismay, informative, that you cannot believe OLPC News is the humble work of a loose association of writers and commenters. Now that's the very definition of blogging success. Wayan - OLPC News

from a fan

GO Rwanda! --Bakersdz 19:11, 14 February 2007 (EST)

More information

I'm a student from Utah State University and I will be applying for the OLPCorps Africa grant for June - Aug 2009. I work as the Programs Associate for The UNGANA Foundation and my project XO Go extends Rwanda's deployment to rural orphans in Gisenyi. I would like to learn more about OLPC Rwanda's deployment specifics; namely XO content, deployment locations, local partners, etc. Can someone with OLPC Rwanda please contact me? Email works best: ashley@unganafoundation.org. I hope to post our project proposal on the OLPCorps Africa FAQ Wiki within the week.

--Ashleylinford 07:18, 9 March 2009 (UTC)