A new post on the World Bank’s You Think:
There was a flurry of debate after TMS Ruge‘s speech at the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas, which included fair criticism of the popular One Laptop Per Child initiative. Key to this debate was an issue that I am finding equally as relevant in my new job: technological innovations are not enough in information and communication technology for development (ICT4D). One also needs approaches that effectively teach the use of a computer or the Internet to actually add any value to these innovations.