For about $200, you can donate the OLPC (One Laptop per Child) to children in developing countries such as Afghanistan, Cambodia, Haiti, Mongolia and Rwanda.

However, how do we ensure that these donations aren’t just going to be sold/stolen on the street?

Is it really a better idea to start implementing massive amounts of technology before basic necessities such as water and electricity lines are laid? The argument of with technology, boosts development of such necessities stands valid, however there must be a natural system of evolution in which economic development takes place? The United States did not have computers handed to them by a divine figure during the great depression before WWII; such improvements naturally came through “evolution” of the economy.

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