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

[Sean DALY]

In my view, knowledge and approval of OLPC's mission and goals at that
high a government level is a very positive development.

Sean


On 3/18/10, Yoshiki Ohshima <yoshiki at vpri.org> wrote:
> 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
>
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