[IAEP] US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton praises OLPC in South America

[Yoshiki Ohshima]

At Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:27:19 -0400,
Martin Langhoff wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Yoshiki Ohshima <yoshiki at vpri.org> wrote:
> >  And if she gave an impression to think that giving laptops to
> > children in the disaster-hit country will solve their problems, it
> > would be a political suicide.
> 
> Do read Hillary's speech. It is actually pretty good, and the mention
> of OLPC is well framed amongst projects that can get LatAm countries
> into thriving societies (and economies). None of these projects will
> on its own turn around a region, but a smart combination of them, and
> serious work will. And this is visibly at work in many LatAm countries
> today.

  Me?  Of course I did read it and I was agreeing with Tim that it is
a positive development.  I was responding to Yama's comment that he
thought she could have gone further by mentioning the OLPC effort in
Haiti but it simply was asking too much.

-- Yoshiki