After attending TEDxAkl I was delighted to learn about the altruistic nature of some of the worlds greatest minds, by offering 30 million PCs to the poorest of children. Then on deeper inspection it occurred to me 'what will happen with the wate once the computers either break or have gone past their use by date?'
The areas in which these children live are often remote, they struggle to provide, what we would call, sanitation. This, and given that they do not yet have programs in place for plastic recycling plants, is a cause for concern.
Sure we can send them PCs for them to learn from and on, but what provisions are there for recycling an already troublesome piece of technology?
Another concern is, who supplies the educational material for these children?
Will the educational material be propaganda and will we be re-writing history in the process?
I'm all for great initiatives, but we need to think the whole process through and stop and think about waste management in an already over consuming public.
Do they really need these tools just because we have them?
Feedback welcome.
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