Negroponte’s $100 laptop in Orange
Jun. 2nd, 2006 08:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Slimmer Linux needed for $100 laptop:
The One Laptop Per Child organization… hopes to distribute 5 million to 10 million of the systems to children in India, China, Brazil, Argentina, Thailand, Egypt, and Nigeria in the first quarter of 2007…. He hopes the project will help supply the world’s billion children with an education that undertrained teachers often can’t supply. “At least 50 percent of those children don’t get anything that even approximates what you and I would call an education,” he said.
That’s all well and good, but it is Orange.
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$100.00 Laptop
Date: 2006-06-11 07:07 pm (UTC)There's always the possibility that some laptop's won't get to the children for cultural reasons or greed, but a large number will go where they are supposto go. Those ones will make the difference. They will improve those children's lives. It will open the world for them.
Roxane