Digital visionary: Nicholas Negroponte

Providing computers at a symbolic price of 100$ is very attractive; however, from a Moroccan perspective, even such a low price can be unaffordable or use less. in a country where illiteracy has very long roots, by literacy here i mean being able to read and write, selling computers to children or given them for free seems useless. As Dr. Ibahrane told us this morning, it will be better to invest our effort to teach kids in rural areas the minimum so that they would be able to perform well in agriculture. Such a strategy, of giving PCs at a symbolic price, can be helpful in a community where IT had becoming part of their culture such as china and India; however, morocco and Moroccans have some prior needs than owning a personal computer, such as food, health care and elementary education.