Comments on: Has OLPC Gone too Far? Or Do they Finally Make the Point?

By: Vince

Vince — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 11:18:00 +0000

They didn’t go too far. It shows the reality of these countries and is Chris doesnt relize how this world is and how it in everywhere except a 1st world country I feel sorry for him being so blind.

By: Vox Raisin

Vox Raisin — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:00:34 +0000

That’s a good advertisement. It grabs your attention. It gets the point across that kids will learn whatever is taught to them. Good begets good. Evil begets evil. There are images in the media much worse than a kid shooting bottles with a machine gun, and more often than not those images are not offered in support of anything as well-intentioned as OLPC.

By: Nova

Nova — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:24:40 +0000

I think its a very nice CM. But, maybe the gun shot is too much to make understand what they want to leave like message. Whatever we will say, I think they are right to say that, we better give notebook (netbook in this case?) than guns, brushes, etc, to those kids. But honestly, I don’t think giving laptops will really solve the education/poverty problem. They need people who will help them in education.

By: Sali

Sali — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:26:13 +0000

I think that the commercial is certainly a powerful and moving one, but disturbing as well. They could have made the point without the guns and prostitution part. I see the XO as a way for children in rural parts of Mali to get an opportunity to learn, collaborate together, and learn about other places in the world while in the middle of nowhere, but it definitely does not offer solutions to their daily struggle of survival. This is a question I am asked many times a day by fellow Malian citizens, some believe that food and building more classrooms is more important than giving laptops to children. My answer to that is we shouldn’t wait until the entire country eats its fill and every village has their own school to give our children a better chance at education, because with corruption as endemic as it is in Africa and exploitation from the developed countries, I don’t think I will live to see every citizen of a country happily fed, perhaps my grandchildren’s generation.

By: Aimee

Aimee — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:49:10 +0000

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By: sylvia martinez

sylvia martinez — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:09:35 +0000

I think your first impression is right. This ad is a powerful statement that we can and must do something positive for these children, otherwise the forces of darkness will win.

By: ChristophD

ChristophD — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:23:39 +0000

I have said it before and I’ll say it again, I’m not a fan of this video and in my humble opinion OLPC shouldn’t have made it, yet alone published it.