First pictures of the $100 laptop (One Laptop Per Child) Released
The "One Laptop Per Child" organisation hopes millions of the devices will be ordered by the governments of developing nations so they can go into mass production.
(PressZoom) - The $100 laptop is an education project for creating an inexpensive laptop computer intended to provide every child in the world access to knowledge and modern forms of education.
Analysts warn that some countries may be loathe to part with money for the unproven and new technology offered.
Dansokho said the project demonstrated misplaced priorities:
“African women who do most of the work in the countryside don't have time to sit with their children and research what crops they should be planting...What is needed is clean water and real schools.”
One Chinese observer commented that the poor need food, farming equipment, affordable health care, land reform, environmental protection from polluters, telephones, electricity, better shelter and a raft of other basic items far more than they need computer hardware, and that this American idea of a $100 laptop seems quite ignorant.
Others suggest it may be more cost efficient to refurbish and upgrade old computers by recycling unwanted models.
The laptop is being developed by the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) trade association. OLPC is a Delaware based, non-profit organization created by faculty members of the MIT Media Lab to design, manufacture, and distribute the laptops. OLPC was announced by Media Lab chairman and co-founder Nicholas Negroponte at the January 2005 World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland.
Source: Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_dollars_laptop
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