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Finally, she analyzes the discourse surrounding the widespread implementation of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) throughout Peru, investigating how people use technology as a means of improving primary education, particularly in parts of the rural hinterland. Chan finds that the entrepreneurial exercise of applying IP to a craft as a means of creating a new collective consciousness around artistic heritage ironically leads instead to diminished trust among some Chulucanas artisans. What is truly fascinating in Chan's work is how she interweaves the ways the so-called native is called upon as explanation and motivation in the story of OLPC in Peru. [Extracted from the article]