"The United Nations on Thursday lent its support to a project which aims to ship inexpensive, hand-cranked laptops to school-aged children worldwide...
Negroponte (chairman of One Laptop per child) wants to start shipping the cheap laptop ($US100), which is to have wireless network access and a hand-crank to provide electricity, later this year. The aim is to have governments or donors buy them and give full ownership to the children.
Negroponte, who is also chairman of the MIT Media Lab, has said he expects to sell 1 million of them to Brazil, Thailand, Egypt and Nigeria.
The laptop is expected to run on an open-source operating system, such as Linux..."
W: http://www.smh.com.au/news/breaking/un-lends-backing-to-the-100-laptop/2006/01/27/1138066930836.html
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