p2p news / p2pnet: The hand-cranked laptop designed to allow under-privileged children in under-developed countries to communicate with the world and each other is to receive UN backing.

The laptop was dismissed by Intel boss Craig Barrett as a mere “$100 gadget” but the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) will sign a partnership agreement with the head of the project, Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Nicholas Negroponte, says the UN.

“Aiming to give poor communities access to the benefits of information technology, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has announced plans to support an innovative project which aims to put cheap and energy-efficient laptop computers in the hands of the world’s most disadvantaged students,” it states.

“The innovative $100 laptop project, designed to give children in developing countries access to the knowledge and educational tools that could lift them out of poverty …”

Also See:
$100 gadget - Intel boss scorns MIT laptop, December 9, 2005
UN - UN agency to back project distributing sturdy, low-cost laptops in poor countries, January 26, 2006

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