I have been following Nicholas Negroponte’s One Laptop per Child (OLPC) initiative since its inception. This month, starting November 12th in North America, OLPC is running a "get one, give one" program. For $399 you can get the laptop and also have one sent to a child in a developing country. The details are available on the OLPC web site. You can give your email address to be notified when the program starts (I’ve entered my email address, you should too!).
Nicholas Negroponte is the founder and chairman of OLPC. He is the author of "Being Digital". He was also the co-founder and director of the MIT Media Lab (he is currently on leave while running the OLPC program). We also had the great pleasure to have him as our keynote speaker at our 1999 developer conference in Philadelphia.
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