Week2

**Lab Assignment 2 outline [due January 21 at 11:59pm]**

 * **Statement: "One laptop per child is a neo-colonial Trojan horse"**
 * **Question to answer: Do you agree with this statement? Provide reasoning.**
 * Tip: Think about this in the context of this course: "CCT205 Digital Innovation and Cultural Transformation"
 * Background information: _
 * Length: short, 2 paragraphs
 * Due by 11:59pm, January 21

I phrase "one laptop per child is a neo-colonial Trojan horse" refers to the ideology of using the spread of technology as a way of spreading the dominant culture's values into another culture. The term neo-colonialism refers to the taking over of a country or area, and the Trojan horse represents a historical metaphor of a cultural "take over" disguised as a gift.

I agree with this statement because even though "one laptop per child" is providing a service by providing laptops for the less fortunate, it is also indirectly a form of cultural take over in the spread of Western culture. It indirectly forces those that are less fortunate to adapt to the technological culture in which "Western" society provides for them, therefore I believe the validity of the aforementioned statement.