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Article: Let them eat laptops.(Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop per Child )
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- Alternatives Journal
- Article date:
- August 1, 2006
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RATANA, A 12-YEAR-OLD GIRL, sits outside her house typing away at lightning speed on a small computer. She's emailing a classmate. Together, they're working out answers for their math homework.
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A scene such as this is commonplace throughout the industrial world. But Ratana doesn't live in Canada or the United States or France. She calls Thailand home, and her small school lies beyond farm fields and across a valley, near a tiny village. No one in the area has electricity.
Turning this vision into reality is the goal of One Laptop per Child (OLPC), a non-profit group that is the brainchild of computer-booster Nicholas ...