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Statement: "One Laptop per child is a neo-colonial Trojan horse" ***

In terms of our course Digital Innovation and Cultural Transformation, I would have to disagree with this statement. I agree that there is neo-colonialism involved here, where people from a developed country dictates how the laptop is to be used and what goes into it for the people who they are trying to help in developing countries but I don't believe that there is any underlying motive to why the OLPC organization is providing this opportunity for children of developed worlds to have technology. The OLPC has made this laptop accessible for the schooling conditions of children in developed countries where some children attend classes outdoors and not in a class room. They have also made it sustainable for rougher terrain do to non-urban settings that may be found in developing countries.

These laptops are a digital innovation. They have been innovated to suit the needs of the children in developing countries. These laptops will also transform these cultures into more technological cultures where they have access to a few of the luxuries that people have in developed countries. These laptops will transform these cultures to accept technology more and make the world more accessible to them and to also start to bridge the technological gap between the rich and the poor.