The One Laptop Per Child project, founded by Nicholas Negroponte, and two years in the making, has been launched. For those of us who believe that feeding the the mind of a child is as important as feeding his or her body, the realization of the One Laptop Per Child project is exciting stuff:
"The individual and societal consequences of this chronic global crisis are profound. Children are consigned to poverty and isolation—just like their parents—never knowing what the light of learning could mean in their lives. At the same time, their governments struggle to compete in a rapidly evolving, global information economy, hobbled by a vast and increasingly urban underclass that cannot support itself, much less contribute to the commonweal, because it lacks the tools to do so. It is time to rethink this equation."
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