Use of the PC at 100$ diverted in Nigeria 2007-07-23
Whereas its mass production is about to begin with for objective the delivery from the exemplary first in October 2007, the famous portable computer with 100 dollars of the association One Laptop Per Child which will cost of them finally 175, is the subject of a small polemic in Nigeria, country where it is currently tested by several schoolboys.
Human nature in question more than the XO
According to an article published by our fellow-members of Reuters having the emanating echo of information of very official News Agency of Nigeria, the beta-testers natives of Niger in short trousers diverted the use of the future XO of its vocation first and several images in pornographic matter recorded on various not very frequentable sites at this age, were found in certain machines.
In response to this “drift”, a representative of the OLPC indicated without more technical explanation than filters were going very quickly to be installed but finally, most unhappy in this history is that the opponents with this philanthropic project start to make use of it of argument for the decredibiliser.
