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...Media Lab, Negroponte is now sharing his vision of a low-cost computing device that can be used to transform education and eventually the economies of third-world nations. His determination to turn that powerful idea into a working prototype, and to get United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan to buy into it, is most worthy of attention. One Laptop per Child (www.laptop.org), the nonprofit association set up to support Negroponte's vision, is a clear, encapsulated expression of that vision.
I had the opportunity to see the prototype up close at the recent EduStat conference, hosted by SchoolNet (www.schoolnet.com) in New York City. Walter Bender, president of software and content for OLPC, was eloquent in his account of the evolution of the...
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