A Crusade to Connect Children - One Laptop per Child

"It will be easy to operate as well as inexpensive, offering schoolchildren of modest means a way to join the Internet age. But recently, OLPC suffered a big setback when an Indian government official criticized Negroponte's group and said India, for one, wasn't interested in what OLPC had to offer "

How sad is this?


But still the end of the article is heartening:


"Argentina has signed a memorandum of understanding with OLPC, he says. Brazil has put money for OLPC machines into its budget for next year. And leaders in Thailand and Nigeria are committed to the project, he adds. "Those four, Brazil, Nigeria, Thailand, and Argentina, feel pretty real to me, blogosphere or not," he writes. "


This is their main site.


This is their current cost.