Last week, Nicholas Negroponte, the Founder and Chairman of
One Laptop
per Child (OLPC) participated in a panel discussion about OLPC in the Least
Developed Countries (LDCs). While celebrating many successes of the project, the
forum served more as an opportunity for Negroponte to point out flaws in the
original distribution plan and to announce the new
"Give
One Get One," business model.
The so-called, "$100 laptop" was promoted as a key tool to bridge the digital
olpc
Technology Tuesday: The $400 Laptop
By Jason Wojciechowski, UN Millennium Campaign Tuesday October 30, 2007
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