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One-laptop-per-child by next year?

News MIT Media Lab chairman Nicholas Negroponte said at a UN internet summit in Tunis, Tunisia, that his not-for-profit organisation was negotiating with manufacturers and would have an initial order placed by February or March.

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[17 Nov 2005]

Will the $100 laptop bridge the UK's digital divide?

News The idea is being driven by Nicholas Negroponte, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who set up the not-for-profit organisation One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) in a bid to help the disadvantaged learn about computers and get access to the...

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[26 Jan 2006]

$100 laptop: 'Fundamentally flawed'

News Speaking at the Red Hat Summit earlier this month, the head of the OLPC project, Nicholas Negroponte, said past attempts to give children in developing countries access to PCs have failed because the children did not see the computers as their own...

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[21 Jun 2006]