School Technologies for Special Needs Children in Very Poor Countries (Harvey Pressman)
Harvey Pressman is President, Central Coast Children’s Foundation. He’s been Technology Editor of Exceptional Parent Magazine, a board member, of the Alliance for Technology Access, an Education and History Professor, and a Peace Corps official. He has written many books and articles about educational technology and the education and employment of people with disabilities, and has directed demonstration programs in these and other areas.
So much writing about technology in poor countries often focuses on the adaptations that need to be made through use of local materials, low-cost or no-cost solutions and cultural changes. We have far too often witnessed expensive failures of technology exports plunked down into environments that simply cannot accommodate them.
Over the past several decades, economically developed nations have made