It seems that the One Laptop Per Child "kid-friendly" computers have had quite a bruised experience in Nigeria, where the toddlers "have learned to fix the systems themselves, setting up a 'laptop hospital' where they can repair what's broken using simple tools and cheap replacement parts". The benefits of having kids "tooling around" with their computers? The in-house repairs cut down on shipping, promote reuse, and increase kids' understanding of ownership and responsibility, thus furthering the OLPC mission, and making everyone generally want to hug, according to OLP's former CTO Mary Lou Jepsen.
Via Engadget
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