One of the biggest problems the One Laptop Per Child program has is that it has no support plan. How do you sell millions of laptops to third world governments without offering to support them? I wrote about this last month here (XO laptop sales begin but support plan is nonexistent). I quoted Wayan Vota, editor of OLPCNews, which provided the above image.
“Ministers in the developing world need this in order to be able to buy laptops. Without a maintenance plan, what are they supposed to do, tell the kids to get a screwdriver and fix it themselves? That’s Humpty Dumpty on a massive scale.”
