One Laptop Per Child pledge

[Michael Costolo]

On 5/25/06, Bill McGonigle <bill at bfccomputing.com> wrote:
> There's a pledge going on here for folks who want to pledge $300 to buy
> a "$100" OLPC laptop:
>
>    http://www.pledgebank.com/100laptop
>
> The idea is that your $300 purchase funds two additional laptops in the
> field.  Even $300 seems like a pretty good deal on the hardware, though
> it probably won't be your primary machine, but I'd love to load up
> GCompris for my daughter on one.
>
> Nicholas Negroponte is not affiliated with this pledge and is currently
> not interested in private sector funding of the laptops.  This pledge
> is also somewhat of an attempt to prove that there's an alternative to
> big-government funding for this kind of charity work.  If the pledge
> reaches its goal it represents a $20M pot of money for the project
> representing an additional 200,000 laptops in the field.  Granted, it's
> a small dent in the 1.8 billion they need to produce.
>
> Deadline to sign up by: 31st October 2006
> 1,748 people have signed up, 98252 more needed
>
> More on the project: http://laptop.org
>
> -Bill


I've never understood why giving laptops to kids who can't read or add
would make them better at reading or math.

Or is this something different than Benson's old project?

-Mike-

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