[Peripherals] [Fwd: Re: [support-gang] Alternitive Power for Developing Countries]

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Edward and all:

Yes... poverty has no limits: one wonder how low it can gets.  :-( $500 
annual means $41 by month and that means $1.38 by day for an average 5 
people family, that means $0.27 by day by person.  Poverty offends :-[ 
.  I can speak ONLY about poverty data of my country (I have not studied 
the poverty mechanisms on other countries, but I know the origin and the 
way poverty survive in my country).  Keeping the poverty status quo in 
my country should not happen (that is a political issue).  Sorry to hear 
that there is deeper poverty than this one.  Sincerely.

Edward: I doubt that the XOs in Peru are been installed in the villages 
without electricity.  IF we (official OLPC organization, the volunteers, 
the companies involved, any other person or organization related) have 
not been able to deliver alternative energy sources then I don't think 
the 45,000 XOs are deployed in towns without energy.  Or... you have 
made a sarcastic comment and I didn't get it? ... are solar panels 
coming with the XOs to the villages? I ask myself how many and from what 
financial source? (the Peruvian congress approved just the exact amount 
of money to buy the 45,000 XOs... not one cent more... so I doubt that 
there are solar panels attached to these 45,000 XOs... I think that they 
are delivered to towns that have electricity and VSATs that comes from 
the old project named "Huascaran"...)

Regards,

Javier
> >  If we don't get an asnwer for the energy problem then we will be delivering
> > (we ARE delivering) XOs to the towns and villages that "look" poor in the
> > eyes of the occidental culture but we are forgetting
>   
Edward wrote:

No, you are forgetting that Nicholas Negroponte made it clear from the
beginning that the villages without electricity were the prime targets
for the XO, and how many people have been working to make it succeed
there.

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