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100 USD laptops for poor countries A MIT project	By 4th of April 2005, 23:01 GMT Adjust text size:


Nicholas Negroponte together with his wife, Elaine, founders of Media Lab within MIT, have succeeded in applying a special project through which poor countries from Africa and students from these countries will benefit from competitive mobile computers with symbolic prices. Sometimes, the only illumination from many huts in Cambodia was just the screens of these computers, donated by MIT and the sponsors of this institution. The goal of the Negropontes and other MIT professors is to offer essential tools in the modern world to millions of children and to young people with limited financial possibilities. However, a project which plans to supply a high number of laptops able to run multimedia applications and to connect to the Internet, but with a price of only 100 USD has limited chances of success. The systems should be produced in a record quantity of 1 million units, and the direct customers will be the governments of these countries which will also be in charge of the correct and efficient distribution of the laptops. However, similar campaigns of helping developing countries to increase their economic and technological level have failed. In 2001, Simputer started a project which proposed the distribution of handheld devices, with a price of 220 USD, produced in India. These systems were finalized last year and the sales are disappointing. Still, the Negroponte project has been offered support by companies like Advanced Micro Devices, Google and Rupert Murdoch's company. With such allies, Negroponte could succeed achieving at least a part of their project.

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