What? They didn’t thought it would come down to this? Hook up any PC to the internet and 99% of the time, it’ll end up will some sort of pr0n one way or another. Apparently, the One Laptop Per Child Project is no exception.
Reuters reports that Nigerian students that have recently been beneficiaries of the OLPC project got too curious with the internet:
Nigerian schoolchildren who received laptops from a U.S. aid organization have used them to explore pornographic sites on the Internet, the official News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported 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.
Hope those filters work.
I wonder when will Filipino students get to check out those free laptops?
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Let’s hear it; “Ooops!”
Anyways, do Filipino kids really need their very own laptops? What they need are more classrooms, more textbooks and employment for their parents. Not to mention health care services.
yikes, i believe a possible solution for this is to have the browsers in the laptops fitted with a forced proxy that pushes all their traffic only to sites that are WHITELISTED in the proxy. this was school administrators get to pre-select sites. i know … a lot of good sites will get blocked along the way… but, is this the price to pay for protection from smut?
That should have been expected and it would have been avoided if precautionary measures were taken.
I agree with what Jhay said. Filipino kids would be better off with more classrooms, textbooks and other learning facilities.
i saw the OLPC program a few months ago in yahoo news. well, laptops are not used for it’s real purpose, (education). the kids actually use their laptops to light their homes. now that’s ingenious!
OLPC has a competition with intel, since i think they’re using AMD. I hope intel doesn’t commit the same mistake with their laptops.
the internet is for pron…
jhay & jaypee,
I disagree.
A laptop IS in itself a learning facility.
Textbooks are so 19th century. Who needs textbooks when a) You can encode their content to digital media and devices such as laptops and b) the internet allows you to have tons and tons of such content that can be regularly updated for accuracy and veracity?
Given that veracity and accuracy is not completely guaranteed, but, an update to a website will allow everyone to see the corrections, as opposed to crappy errata sheets that the DepEd distributed in lieu of revisions to their currently used text books.
As for the porn, the problem with OLPC is that it is being implemented by a generation that didn’t grow up with computers, and therefore do not see the value of “teching up” children for a future that is obviously tech-dominated despite the existence of tribal wars.
Sure it will allow them to browse porn, or get addicted to online games, but that is in as much as a kitchen knife will allow you to murder your neighbor. Regulation, proper guidance, and adult care (parental or otherwise — if the parents are computer illiterate they won’t be able to perform this duty) will still need to come into play.
OLPC in the Philippines should be handled by a private entity, and NOT a government organization PLEASE!!!!
For those who did not know that during the relief operation in the Baguio earthquake in the 90s, a relief donation composed of blankets ended up as BANIG to the earthquake victims!!!
The olpc will make no sense anymore. Why? A certain “madison celebrity Laptop” has emerge.
CPU - Intel® Celeron® M Processor 370 (1.5 GHz, 90nm, FSB400, 1 MB L2 cache, uPGA478)
DISPLAY - 14.0″ WXGA (1280×768) TFT
HARD DRIVE - 40 GB
MEMORY - 64-bit wide DDR data channel, One 200-pin SODIMM socket, supporting DDR 333/400, 256 MB Expandable up to 1GB, based on SODIMM Modules
VIDEO CONTROLLER - VIA PN800 integration, Shared Memory Architecture up to 64MB, 128 bit 3D graphic engine, Support analog monitor pixel resolution up to 1920×1400,
SOUND SYSTEM - AC’97 2.2 Compliant Interface, 3D stereo enhanced sound system, Sound-Blaster PROTM Compatible, S/PDIF Digital output (5.1 CH), 1x Built-in Microphone, 2x Built-in Speakers
COMMUNICATION - 10/100BASE-TX Fast Ethernet on board, 802.11g MiniPCI Wireless LAN
you know how much? $150 USD compared to OLPC’s $175
more info: http://www.medisoncelebrity.com/product.html
vance,
Goes to show that it *is* possible, but hardware manufacturers are dragging their feet because it’s not as profitable. That has been the whole point of OLPC. If OLPC hadn’t done it, nobody else would.
I believe OLPC is still trying to bring the price down to $100 per unit.
Filipino kids need both laptops and books. But good books please not the error-filled textbook variety of deped. But above both of these, what pinoy kids are in dire need are good teachers! Failing in all three, the only hope lies in good parents… and that’s where I believe, the crux of the tragedy is. That’s just my off-hand, coffee time opinion, anyways.
Pinoy kids are mostly on their own. Give them laptops, please. They might make something good off it.
Looks like “medison” laptop is a scam. If you go to “buy now” it mentions verified by visa/mastercard, but where you should be able to click the links (ie: “learn more”) they don’t work.
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