fyi ... Software and Hardware makers go for the profit. Where are you coming from? I am coming from the point of view that the actions that have to be taken need to have two properties that most people don't think of. One, it has to be global and it has to be in very large scale. And if it does not have scale, it would not be taken sufficiently serious for industry to change its behaviour. And if it is not global, it will not affect bigger issues like poverty elimination and world peace. So global in scale of the two is a very important element. What do you think of children? We don't think of children as consumers that seat there absorbing materials given to them. We think of them lot more as manufacturers. They make things. They design things. They build things. They communicate with each other. And if learning is having to be to a doing thing, the best way to learn something is to do it. It turns out that with computers you can simulate so much that you can do a lot of "doing" and we have found children able to write computer programmes, make remarkable content and the whole concept of a child just being a passive recipient is changing, so that is the direction we going. We understand that Bill Gates and some others in this business have criticized this initiative as untenable. What is your response to this? I don't respond to such criticism. Because criticising this project is like criticising the church, or the Red Cross. We are a happy humanitarian organisation. We will work with anybody including Microsoft and Intel and others who have criticised us. It is actually shameless to criticise us, because the motivation is not to compete in the market place. The motivation is to change the way education happens by providing a different way of learning. So we don't respond to criticism because always often, these criticisms are often wrong, including that of Bill Gates. Technically they didn't look deep enough for what we were criticised for. In fact, what we were criticised for were not faults at all, they were our strength. Well, I don't wanna get into a small nuclear war with Bill Gates, a great baron. ... http://www.vanguardngr.com/articles/2002/features/technology/tec314092006.html -- ________________________________________ http://users.ntua.gr/karounos/ - skype: karounos