[Dialogue] $100 Laptops for All Children

[Don Hinkelman]

Today, at 1pm New York time, Kofi Annan will announce an initiative  
at the World Information Summit in Tunis for governments to provide  
hundreds of millions of laptops for $100 to children across the  
world. These will not be for sale directly but distributed as part of  
national educational infrastructures. Watch here for the live  
webcast...  http://www.itu.int/wsis/tunis/webcast/english/ 
press_conf.htm#  The World Summit on the Information Society main  
site is... http://www.itu.int/wsis/index.html

Apple tried to offer free Mac OS X as part of the $100 package, but  
this offer was declined by the not-for-profit organisers, One Laptop  
per Child (OLPC) and the developers, MIT Media Lab, who are looking  
for a 100% open source solution.   http://laptop.media.mit.edu/

P.S.   A question to all--who said "Action removes the doubt that  
theory cannot resolve." ?   And were those the exact words?