@lzg Saw a video the other day of a child being miraculous recovered from the rubble of a building which fell on him (because of a US bomb, what else). He was talking to his rescuers the whole time. What was he asking?
Sure, he was asking them to be careful and to hurry..but also could they please look for his cashbox. He'd had it in his hand when the building had fallen on him and had been saving for a bicycle.
Back in 2011,Gov decided to distribute laptops to the top performing kids in each public school. They did factor in some of the families might sell those laptops immediately, but they also provided free wifi for ALL students outside schools+unis+major transport hubs.
10 years now, every single professional coder in the country either has a friend or themselves got into IT only because of the laptop. Some families still use their decade old laptops today.
@lzg the "laptop scheme" faced crazy amounts of criticism even back then. But now its mostly gone.
It single handedly gave #Pakistan a growing IT sector inspite almost a total lack of the subject in public schools and colleges back then.
And these kids have now spurred much more development in the form of IT institutes and subjects across the board, as demand for both jobs and computer literacy have increased.
No critics of the policy now, in fact theres demand for another round lol
@lzg i'll be honest, i don't think i'd be living in canada right now if i hadn't had access to a laptop as a kid, i self taught how to code and allow me to get jobs and emigrate. born in Chile in the 90s. I don't have strong opinions about the project either way, but I saw with my own eyes the importance of access to technology (in the right hands, saw also a tremendous amount of misuse/waste)
@lzg is this like a “wine is not healthy, wine drinkers are wealthier" kind of situation? i don't really get your point but i'm not saying it's not true, I just want to add another voice to the conversation. i didn't always have access to computers! i come from a rural background, we didn't make much, it was hard having access to technology or "a normal school”. i didn't have internet at home until like 2010.
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