Comments on: One Laptop Per Child, They Will Fail…

By: Vikas Gupta

Vikas Gupta — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:24:25 +0000

We should donate some money however little it may be. I recently donated a mere 1000 Rupees to UNESCO despite my poor budget and I feel happy!:)

That one laptop per child scheme in India was a miserable failure!

By: Andre Rahming

Andre Rahming — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:21:05 +0000

Hey,
Well thats cool that you care about children etc. And also I live in the Bahamas!

By: HostGator Donates $25k To One Laptop Per Child « Hosting Heartbeat

HostGator Donates $25k To One Laptop Per Child « Hosting Heartbeat — Fri, 30 May 2008 18:20:04 +0000

[...] is a bit old, but HostGator donated $25,000 to the one laptop per child fund. I really like the OLP initiative, but as HostGator points out, the initiative has been bogged down [...]

By: Jeremy Steele

Jeremy Steele — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:48:47 +0000

As with many things these days it was a great idea, but a poor execution. They should tie it off and move on.

By: syikin

syikin — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 02:38:30 +0000

Ouch! I would certainly feel that way when my donation is not appreciated.

The organisation should have handled it professionally if they wish to have more donors coming back. But in this case… well.. its up to them to bring back their reputation

By: Nonu

Nonu — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:53:38 +0000

I totally agree with Dave..$25,000 is not a small amount to be ignored. They have just shown mishandling with donors. I just wonder if the whole money is really going to the needy? This is a kind of misbehavior and I wonder how they will be handling donations smaller than that..!

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:23:36 +0000

Hi Brent

Totally understandable. 25 thousand dollars is allot of money and it is important that if you are donating it,you feel it is going to a good cause.

If they cannot reply to an email correctly. One can only imagine how they handle the distribution of that 25 thousand dollars..

By: colin

colin — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 03:00:10 +0000

Does anyone seriously believe that olpc is anything more than a publicity stunt and ego trip. Feed the World, No More Hunger they are not the first. Bland meaningless slogans. Give Africa water wells, farming advice, democracy and health then they can Google Lindsay Lohan on their laptops. No they can’t they have no wireless infrastructure, no electricity (i know they are solar powered but they still need servers and hosting companies). Whether the laptop costs $100 $250 or $500 delivered to Africa, India or wherever that money would buy alot of food, medicine, seeds, water wells, or pay to kill the leaders of most of these countries who are causing most of the problems.

By: dheeraj

dheeraj — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 08:07:26 +0000

Well they have already tried this in a small village in India. reliance industries has done this and they are going to take this up bigtime in India.

By: Christy W

Christy W — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 04:18:43 +0000

Firstly, thank you so much for the thoughtful donations to multiple charities, especially to MD Anderson! I cannot stress enough how extremely proud I am to work for this company in lieu of such an act.

Secondly, try try again, and maybe start with a smaller donation to test out the competancy of the handling system of such donations for future recipients. Unfortunate result, yes. But karma must count for something. Good show.