One Laptop per Child

Greetings,

On 12 October we ran a blog piece and link to One Laptop per Child. It is a program out of MIT to get laptops to kids in Nigeria, Libya, Argentina, Brazil and Thailand, among others.

..."The OLPC's produced earlier this week in Shanghai still need to go through loads of testing, such as knocking them off desks and dropping them in mud, as kids are wont to do. They may also be kicked around, like soccer balls, a popular sport in 99.9 percent of the world." - Tech Web

"We have to test, test, test this machine under conditions of extreme cold, extreme heat, mud, dust, jungle and daily abuse by kids," said Nicholas Negroponte, in an interview with the International Herald Tribune.

John Markoff at the NYT just published an article on the machine, the economics and educational pros and cons.

An on-going NYT blog containing 340+ comments, opinions and discussions about this article and OLPC issue is good reading. Share your ideas.

Peace.

For $150, Third-World Laptop Stirs a Big Debate