The $100 Laptop is an initiative developed by the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) association, an offshoot of the MIT Media Lab (and specifically its founder Nicholas Negroponte.) The goal is to bring affordable computing to underpriveleged populations around the world, bridging the digital divide.
The laptop system uses Linux as the basis for its goal of achieving a highly customizeable system.
In August, project director's announced that the project was to be renamed the Children's Machine 1 (or CM1).
Note
As of August 2006, the official sale price of the $100 Laptop was estimated at $140.[1]
External Links
- The official $100 Laptop page
- MIT laptop gets a new name just in time for field tests from Ars Technica
- $100 laptop project launches 2007
- Eight nations set to get $150 laptops from ZDNet (2.12.07)
- '$100 laptop' cost rises to $175, for now from the Los Angeles Times (4.27.07)