Why Western Designs Fail in Developing Countries

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Why Western Designs Fail in Developing Countries


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  1. liter of light, seriously? this is one of the greatest and most evil examples of scam, driven by mere ignorance of users. just because it looks like a light bulb doesnt mean it's the cheapest or good way to illuminate room. literally a4 paper will do way better if put instead of ceiling plate, the same area that liter of light's mounting plate while being essentially free. but people think bottle sort of amplifies the light and keep buying them, building them or whatever. no, its just scattering light, but providing exactly as much light as that hole for the bottle would provide. so when saying a4 paper will do better i really mean it, consider, total irradiance will be higher on paper just because it has bigger surface area. so i dont know why you mentioned it as if it was any different. yes, people use it, because they dont have good enough education to know how luminance works, they're building "free energy" devices too and are happy. this doesn't make product any less scam. whats even worse is that, people who funded that know no any better either.

  2. I'm sorry, but being from the third world I feel you just homogenised a lot of stuff here, you cannot just assume a reality in one part of the world can apply to others. There are behemoths countries as India, China, Indonesia, Bangladesh or Pakistan with diversity within itself, the motives behind failing design are equally diverse and complex

  3. when to school in tasmainia austraila, was given one of the laptops 14 years ago now, they where usefull but defenetly not for a place without consistent power wow

  4. This is why i hate tech bros with more money than sense. They think that a computer by itself is like some magic focus stone that they can present to the world and everything else will fall into place around it

  5. I supported OLPC at the time by buying two laptops for $400, one for me and one for someone else. I often wondered what happened to that laptop and if anyone got any benefit from it. I don't regret my decision to support OLPC, but I appreciate this video and I found it really interesting. Thanks!

  6. So-called developing countries need institutes, education and democracy to actually become developing. It's cool if you help by giving free stuff, but if you can't supervise- its effectiveness decreases, because of the reasons such countries aren't considered developed in the first place. Everybody knows that the term is used as "underdeveloped compared to the current top", and i'm not saying that "current top" can't be a norm everywhere, then becoming an overall norm.

  7. $14k?! HOW?! Did they make it from manganese with laser engravings and wolfram carbide bearings in US factory? It's supposed to be steel welded frame with one or two bearings and a screw pump. If made locally, it would cost $2k at most.

  8. Can you imagine wealthy African people and African "missionaries" and do gooders coming to the United States, China, or Europe's poor areas with their "philanthropy"? Then anyone can see how preposterous this entire bottomless pit of "African charity" GRIFTING is and why it needs to go into the dustbin of history. Better the nations of Africa keep out the "do gooders."

  9. A lesson here that not everyone is born the same. This "innate curiosity" and "self teaching" is inherent to the white Mediterranean race who has come up with most inventions and technological breakthroughs, but most everyone else doesn't care for it. No wonder this approach failed anywhere other than the Mediterranean.

    You have to develop for tendencies and mindsets, personalities, not just some design "for everyone". The faults in the designs are apparently obvious if you think about it in terms of use case rather than this "help Africa" nonsense. How will the device be used and by whom? Do they need or even want it? The only one of these that stopped to think about the user was the light bottle. Which is why it did so well.

    100% guarantee that the idea behind that laptop would do far better with mediterranean kids. The problem then is that we already have superior things. So it's a failed product.

  10. its sorta terrifying that countries that yet dont have culture around the internet are being taught to code just as quick if not faster than the internet as a cultural idea, because imagine our digital culture, but every child that is on the internet also has a relatively decent formal training in computer science, nightmare fuel

  11. My parents supported a charity in Idea that was very much of the mindset that they would find western dollars and vet the authenticity of the charities in India that received those dollars but that the people doing the work on the ground needed to be locals solving things in local ways. There were no western people living on the ground there doing things, at most we were guests when groups would go once a year to check on things. I was able to see some of these groups during a 2 week visit and we were told to follow local customs and expectations.