Alex Singleton, President of the Globalisation Institute, a European think tank, argues against the OLPC and says that computers should be left to the market economy. “The very worst idea in international development circles is the One Laptop Per Child scheme being fronted by academic Nicholas Negroponte. ”

My opposition to the OLPC is grounded on the fact that it bypasses the market mechanism. It involves the government and its inefficient and corrupt bureaucracies. The problem of the insufficient resources for education in poor economies is compounded by the almost certain misallocation of whatever little there is by going for the OLPC.

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