"comes loaded with electronic 50 books in the native language"
I would ask...WHICH native language.
The first proposal of this type occured at the December 2003 WSIS in Geneva by David Laughing Horse Robinson, a Kawaiisu Native American from California where there were several hundred languages before Spain made an appearance in the Americas. This language density still exists in the target areas OLPC and Intel are marketing to. The proposal by Laughing Horse addressed the "language" issue by recommending that Dragon Naturally Speaking, or some similar voice recognition software, be incorporated to accomodate not only the depth of dialects worldwide but also the prevalence of dyslexia and dysgraphia in Indigenous populations. His presentation in 2003 addressed the ECOSOC topic of expanding e-education into areas devoid of phone service, cable/satellite tv and internet: He proposed solar powered tablet PCs in a village setting, interfaced with a wifi enabled telekiosk for education delivery. In addition to Dragon Naturally Speaking, the PC's would include a digital ink pen paint program like Wacom Graphire and something like MathType to bridge the aforementioned learning disabilities as well as the other common one, color blindness. With the addition of similar software to support the education agenda, more governments will be inclined to invest and participate. Who will step in now to add to the hard work accomplished by Intel and OLPC?
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"comes loaded with electronic 50 books in the native language" I would ask...WHICH native language. The first proposal of this type occured at the December 2003 WSIS in Geneva by David Laughing Horse Robinson, a Kawaiisu Native American from California where there were several hundred languages before Spain made an appearance in the Americas. This language density still exists in the target areas OLPC and Intel are marketing to. The proposal by Laughing Horse addressed the "language" issue by recommending that Dragon Naturally Speaking, or some similar voice recognition software, be incorporated to accomodate not only the depth of dialects worldwide but also the prevalence of dyslexia and dysgraphia in Indigenous populations. His presentation in 2003 addressed the ECOSOC topic of expanding e-education into areas devoid of phone service, cable/satellite tv and internet: He proposed solar powered tablet PCs in a village setting, interfaced with a wifi enabled telekiosk for education delivery. In addition to Dragon Naturally Speaking, the PC's would include a digital ink pen paint program like Wacom Graphire and something like MathType to bridge the aforementioned learning disabilities as well as the other common one, color blindness. With the addition of similar software to support the education agenda, more governments will be inclined to invest and participate. Who will step in now to add to the hard work accomplished by Intel and OLPC?