[Dialogue] $100 Laptops for All Children

[Adam Thomson]

You can wind the computers up, just like the wind-up radio launched a 
few years ago.

Adam in Dover UK

At 23:56 16/11/2005, you wrote:
>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 solut ion. 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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