One Laptop Per Child Changes Plans
May 28, 2010 | Read Time: 1 minute
A charity in Cambridge, Mass., that intended to produce and distribute $100 laptop computers to the world’s poorest children has instead decided to focus on the more cutting-edge technology, the electronic reading tablet, according to the Associated Press.
One Laptop Per Child’s original plan was to manufacture 100-million laptops within two years and sell the machines to governments and organizations in developing countries for distribution to kids. Today about 2 million of the machines are in use, and the charity was never able to get the computers’ prices much below $200 each.
Nicholas Negroponte, the charity’s founder, says the group’s new tablets will be based on a design by Marvell Technology Group, which unveiled a prototype this year that it says will cost about $99.
