One of our longtime volunteers seeing Nicholas’s recent ‘Learning by Yourselves‘ talk at Solve for X, had this to say:
My great hope is that the Learning by Yourselves experiment will break the final barriers to the high objective of universal literacy — in this generation!
Please also know that although this experiment is at the cutting edge of technology, the conception and imagining of this effort was projected, and tried, in 2004 in Afghanistan. [See 2006 UNICEF report on work done with the Afghanistan government.] Using illiterates to harness the innate desire for learning among children – can be done with paper and pencil; the tablets, however, will make it much more dramatic.
i think its a great idea that people do this out of there hearts like they say one nation.
The main problem in using a computer at home in poor countries is the lack of electricity.
A low cost way of producing it when using a stove is being developed using thermoelectricity.
If anyone wants to know more email at biodes@bigfoot.com
Graham K