One Laptop Per Child Succumbs to the Law of Unintended Consequences
When the epicenter of spam in Nigeria meets the charitable intentions of One Laptop Per Child and the nature of children to explore where they ought not comes:
Nigerian pupils browse porn on donated laptops
Thu 19 Jul 2007, 15:34 GMT
ABUJA, July 19 (Reuters Life!) - Nigerian schoolchildren who received laptops from a U.S. aid organisation have used them to explore pornographic sites on the Internet, the official News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported on Thursday.
NAN said its reporter had seen pornographic images stored on several of the children’s laptops.
“Efforts to promote learning with laptops in a primary school in Abuja have gone awry as the pupils freely browse adult sites with explicit sexual materials,” NAN said.
A representative of the One Laptop Per Child aid group was quoted as saying that the computers, part of a pilot scheme, would now be fitted with filters.
Maybe “one laptop per child” got translated into “one lapdance per child”?
We should also have OLPC consider the wisdom of giving the world’s spam capital more tools to perpetuate their scams.
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