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Article: Vision evolves, but $100 laptop is still the goal
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- February 24, 2008
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On the Hot Seat
Nicholas Negroponte
founder, One Laptop Per Child Foundation
In 2005, Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Nicholas
Negroponte's idea of distributing $100 laptops to poor children
captured the world's imagination. Today, Negroponte's One Laptop Per
Child foundation of Cambridge has begun distributing hundreds of
thousands of its XO laptops around the world. Globe reporter
Hiawatha Bray spoke with Negroponte for a progress report.
Q. How many of the XO laptops are now deployed in developing
countries?
A. Five hundred thousand have been committed, 250,000 have been
manufactured and half of those have arrived. They have arrived in
Uruguay. They have arrived in Peru. ...
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