I don't believe that this is empowerment at all. Having sat though the awful sales pitch from RISO at the African Education Week Conference in June, we now see an attempt to embed the practice of photocopying into schools in a way which just promulgates the status quo and becomes a barrier to the digital revolution. Just like I said in my post about the conference sessions.
Why not use the costs associated with this outdated technology to fund mobile technology. It doesn't need to be big 1:1 schemes, but anything which prevents this type of situation and breaks the text-book cycle and indeed, the reliance on printed materials has to be progress.
Paperight and Riso Africa empower schools to print their own textbooks | The Paperight Blog
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