[citation][nom]gm0n3y[/nom]Disagree. Feeding the hungry masses without teaching them how to function in the modern world economy just means that they will have more children that will rely on handouts making the situation worse. It would be better to drop condoms and birth control (with instruction) from a helicopter. That would help to ensure that their existing food sources are sufficient. The problem is not too little food its too many people.[/citation]
No, the problem is lack of investment in infrastructure by tin-pot African dictators like Robert Mugabe or Idi Amin. Instead of simply giving them bottled water and food to last till the next drought kills half the population, how about building desalinisation plants, solar farms and roads. They keep their people ignorant and poor so they won't rise up and overthrow them, happy to let them kill each other in tribal disputes or die from Aids because they don't teach basic sex education or from malaria because there is no immunisation program.
Well, you can't take out the tin-pot leaders without having a war so the next best this is:-
A) Drop a cheap tablet on the masses
B) Build a desalinisation plant
It's a no-brainer, Bill Gates made his billions in computers and is now spending paying for malaria jabs and saving lives.
OLPC is a complete waste of time, bring the continent up to the 21st century and let them buy tablets like everyone else.