Analyzing the Evolution of a Digital Technology Intervention: One Laptop Per Child in a Remote Papua New Guinea Community.
This article offers an ethnographic account of the evolution of a One Laptop per Child intervention program in Oksapmin communities (Papua New Guinea). The analysis examines the intervention's evolution as historically contingent, revealing how interdependent actions of multiple stakeholders create...
| Published in: | Anthropology & Education Quarterly Vol. 49; no. 4; pp. 394 - 413 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Dec2018
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