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$100 Laptops will Help Educate World’s Children

OhmyNews recently ran a piece entitled:




The goal is One Laptop per Child. Of course, the impact of this will be amazing. Last summer I was in Ecuador and only two percent of the population is plugged in. What will happen when the poorest of the poor get access to the world’s great books that soon will be scanned online or any information on any topic they want?

The MIT’s FAQ include:

How is it possible to get the cost so low?

Second, we will get the fat out of the systems. Today’s laptops have become obese. Two-thirds of their software is used to manage the other third, which mostly does the same functions nine different ways.
Third, we will market the laptops in very large numbers (millions), directly to ministries of education, which can distribute them like textbooks.

When do you anticipate these laptops reaching the market?

Our preliminary schedule is to have units ready for shipment by the end of 2006 or early 2007. Manufacturing will begin when 5 to 10 million machines have been ordered and paid for in advance.

One Response to “$100 Laptops will Help Educate World’s Children”

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