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Article: Negroponte: Laptops Key to Global Knowledge
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- February 18, 2008
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The American Association for the Advancement of Science issued the following news release:
In a AAAS Annual Meeting plenary, Nicholas Negroponte, founder and director of One Laptop per Child, detailed how he transformed a desire to provide access to learning into a successful non-profit organization providing low-cost computers to children in the developing world.
At its core, Negroponte said during his 17 February 2008 address, One Laptop per Child uses technology to foster in children a desire to learn and attend school by making education both interesting and useful.
Citing a 1992 trip to Cambodia, Negroponte said he observed kids steadily losing interest as they passed through the ...