[Dialogue] $100 Laptops for All Children

[Ghee Bowman]

Sounds like a great way to spread a bit more technology dependency round the
world!

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-----Original Message-----
From: Dialogue-bounces at wedgeblade.net
[mailto:Dialogue-bounces at wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of Don Hinkelman
Sent: 16 November 2005 02:20
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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