{"id":204,"date":"2009-01-08T16:22:40","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T16:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/?p=204"},"modified":"2009-01-08T16:22:40","modified_gmt":"2009-01-08T16:22:40","slug":"12-a-laptop-per-child-olpc-cuts-staff-in-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/?p=204","title":{"rendered":"1\/2 a laptop per child?  OLPC cuts staff in half"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Register <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2009\/01\/08\/olpc_layoffs\/\">notes<\/a> that Nicholas Negroponte&#8217;s controversial One Laptop Per Child project is cutting half of its staff.  The article mentions the project&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reghardware.co.uk\/2008\/11\/13\/olpc_xo_g1g1_scheme_uk\/\">Give One Get One scheme<\/a> where one laptop is donated to a poor country for every one purchased in a rich country.  It&#8217;s hard, in this glaring credit-crunch light, not to see the project as a glorified corporate-giving scheme where the have-lots get an excuse to buy another interesting toy . . .<\/p>\n<p>but that could just be my cynicism at the ideas that laptops are somehow necessary and sufficient for eduction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Register notes that Nicholas Negroponte&#8217;s controversial One Laptop Per Child project is cutting half of its staff. The article mentions the project&#8217;s Give One Get One scheme where one laptop is donated to a poor country for every one purchased in a rich country. It&#8217;s hard, in this glaring credit-crunch light, not to see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pUfdR-3i","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions\/205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}