Low-Cost Laptop Project Ramps Up Production
Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society kicked off its annual conference for college IT officials and Internet-law experts last night with an update on One Laptop Per Child from that project’s indefatigable founder, Nicholas Negroponte.
Speaking to about 80 people gathered at Harvard’s Langdell Hall, Mr. Negroponte reported that One Laptop Per Child — which seeks to provide low-cost laptops to schoolchildren in developing nations — is proceeding nicely. Small groups of students in Nigeria, Thailand, and Uruguay have already received the streamlined laptops. And plenty of other nations are at least tentatively planning to buy and distribute the machines — although “none have sent us a check,” Mr. Negroponte said.
By the end of the year, One Laptop Per Child should be manufacturing about one million computers per month, according to Mr. Negroponte.
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