Dr. Bart Thurber, of the University of San Diego and my co-presenter, believes that the computer itself imports western values. Regardless of the computer's software, it has the potential of undermining non-western cultural values. We give them our factory-style education along with our classical liberal computers. Part of the problem is that even we aren't western. Not in the sense that computers are.
Computers invite change.
They invite the individual to edit what has been told before. They invite the individual to respond. Leaders are 'elected' on the spur of the moment, and last as long as they have popular support. This isn't the western liberal democracy of the United States. It's the tribal democracy of Athens, and more than just education is on trial.