[Dialogue] $100 Laptops for All Children

[grapevin@comcast.net]

Now if we can find a way to get electricity to the billion that don't have it then we can find a way to charge up the batteries on these computers.  Or maybe they will be solar powered.  Wouldn't that be a great solution?

Dave Rebstock

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> 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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