One Laptop per Child Beats the Odds
When Nicholas Negroponte launched One Laptop per Child in 2005, he was variously called an idealist and an imperialist for his idea: a nonprofit education-based initiative to help the world’s poorest countries disseminate laptop computers to millions of children — at $100 per unit.
Three years later, you can call him effective. Production of OLPC’s specially designed, kid-friendly XO laptop — rugged, low-wattage, with handles for easy toting — began in November 2007. Today, OLPC has large purchase agreements in Uruguay and Peru, for a total of 1.7
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