Dear Editor,
Permit me to add my two bits to an article posted on your page K/N-Re “Mandatory community service for adult laptop users”, dated 17-2-2011.
The one laptop per family is good. What is disheartening is to read that the Administration wish to implement community service as a prerequisite for the ownership of a laptop and I quote, “so while students are earning computers, community are getting clean streets, parks and painted schools.
Community service or self help as it was called was there before and you did not have to make an input to get a reward, so this should not be used to issue a computer .I wonder if the Administrators see it as a means to an end to curtail the spending of monies for the services by Central/Local Government by having these services done by the recipients of the computer. If this is the case I would like to point out that the monies that was/will be spent to purchase laptops did/will come from the Consolidated Funds.
The recipients would have contributed directly/indirectly so what is it with this community service? Would the persons who receive the 20 laptop have to do community service?
On another point – the Administration should implement IT centres at community level, at schools, village offices and community centres, where the recipients would attend classes or work shops to better understand the working of the computer.
This merely is my perceptive in a one eye man kingdom.
Trevor Romeo
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