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Article: Nigerian president lauds 100-dollar laptop initiative for children
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- November 24, 2005
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Nigerian president lauds 100-dollar laptop initiative for children
LAGOS, Nov. 24 (Xinhua) -- Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo on
Thursday described the proposed 100 US dollars "One Laptop per Child"
(OLPC) initiative designed for developing the countries' children as
"a great idea."
The non-profit OLPC initiative was first announced by Nicholas
Negroponte, who heads the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January this
year.
The aim of Negroponte's initiative is to provide each child in the
developing world with a laptop that can also act as an e-book, a
tablet PC and a TV in a bid to help bridge the digital divide.
"This is ...