Nicholas Negroponte’s One Laptop Per Child project is the single most exciting technology development I’m aware of.
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Of the estimated one billion children in the world, 50 percent live in remote areas. “If a child is lucky, they go to school for two-and-a-half hours per day,” Negroponte said. “Teachers have a sixth grade education. They often don’t come in [to teach]. In one country, unnamed, one third of the teachers never show up.”
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Units will be available later this year for testing, and he hopes to deploy 5 to 10 million laptops in 2007 and 50 to 150 million in 2008. The anticipated price for the 2007 model is $138, going to down to $100 by the end of 2008 and getting to $50 in 2010, Negroponte said.
Negroponte’s One Laptop Per Child project will fundamentally change the world for kids, giving them a richer life. How cool is that?