| Article title: Laptop project enlivens Peruvian hamlet |
| This is a overview of an article written by Frank Bajak at AP on 12-24-07 10:51 AM ET, about a small village in Peru, and that 50 young children had received a OLPC OX "Green Machine" laptop computer. The following is a summary of details of the news article before it was deleted. Mike Tomich |
| We apologize because the actual AP/Yahoo news article about the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) computer which was suppose to appear here has been unexpectedly eliminated from web viewers by AP? MIT? OLPC? However, important facts of the story are included below. |
| Comment by Mike Tomich I'm not questioning the concept of the OLPC XO program. Young children have soft bones. The soft bones in their fingers and hands will become bend and twisted from the process of pushing the buttons on the computer keyboard. This damage from using the keyboard is seen throughout our website Computer damaged fingers. No one knows the age when children's fingers are calcified hard enough to be able to push the computer keyboard keys without damaging their skeletal system. Our web site if full of pictures with such injuries. Young children should not use computers, coloring, video gaming until their bones are hard enough to prevent dynamic force injuries. To prevent children from developing fingers deformities and loss of physical functionality in the use of their hands, it would behoove everyone to contact the senators identified on our site and ask for passage of Senate bill S.948-CAMRA Act, which will provide a study on the physical effects of dynamic forces vs. bone calcification and material creep values. |
| Parents must know of these permanent crippling injuries. Please share our web site with your friends. |
| About the deleted AP News article www.miketomich.com |
| Computer Deformities Alyssa 4 yr |
| The article stated: 50 primary school children in a hilltop Andean village received One Laptop Per Child computer 6 months ago. It speaks of the peasant families not having money for the OLPC and can ill afford pencil and paper. Walter Bender, President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology spin off, founded by former MIT Media Lab director Nicholas Negroponte, indicate this is the kind of conditions the OLPC was designed for, backwater up the hill. Mass production began in November and they expect 1.5 million machines sold around the world by November 2008. The higher-than-initially-advertised price and a lack of the Windows operating system, still being tested for the XO, have dissuaded many potential government buyers. As of December 24, 2007 Peru has ordered 272,000 machines. Uruguay ordered 100,000 machines. Negroponte said 150,000 more laptops will get shipped to countries including Rwanda, Mongolia, Haiti, and Afghanistan in early 2008 through " But a pair of laptops for $399, and donate one or both to the poorest children in the world. The XOs that Peru is buying will be distributed to pupils in 9,000 elementary schools from the Pacific to the Amazon basin where a single teacher serves all grades. The news article which was deleted from the web viewers goes on to say for every 100 computers 1 computer will be held for parts. Teachers and students will have to make repairs because of a lack of technicians. Some will not have access to the Internet. Peru's head of educational technology, Oscar Becerra, is betting the One Laptop program can reverse this rural exodus to the squalor of Lima's shanty towns four hours away. end of synopsis |
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