Wayan Vota reports, "Jeff Patzer, a 2010 OLPC intern in Peru, is publishing an amazing set of posts where he tries to explain why the OLPC Peru Una Laptop Por Nino' is failing." Patzer writes, "the teachers were not going to get the help they needed from the [Peruvian Ministry of Education]." Vota suggests that Patzer agrees with Christoph Derndorfer, who wrote that " this drive-by implementation model has only one outcome: laptops are getting opened and turned on, but then kids and teachers are getting frustrated by hardware and software bugs, don't understand what to do, and promptly box them up to put back in the corner." But in the end, it's not necessarily the "drive by" approach that's the problem, but the laptop itself. "OLPC built a laptop that doesn't work well and has many problems. The Peruvian ministry of education has software that is too buggy and an infrastructure not built to support the deployment."
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