[Dialogue] $100 Laptops for All Children

[Ray & Elaine Richmond]

Don 
The word is usually "solve"  and it is attributed to Sun Tzu in several
places. But if it's a translation from SunTzu -- who knows what the exact
words are!

Elaine Richmond 

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[mailto:Dialogue-bounces at wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of Don Hinkelman
Sent: Wednesday, 16 November 2005 12:20 PM
To: Colleague Dialogue
Subject: [Dialogue] $100 Laptops for All Children

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?


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