One Laptop Per Child, a U.S. based nonprofit organization has come to terms on an agreement with the Libyan government that will provide low-cost educational laptop computers by 2008 to the country's 1.2 million school children.
New York Times piece on the agreement. "When I met with Qaddafi, it had all the mystique and trimmings expected: middle of the desert, in a tent, 50 degrees C. etc. It took him very little time to find O.L.P.C. appealing as an idea." Of course, this wouldn't be the first time M.I.T. researcher has been involved in bringing educational technology to underprivileged nations. According to the Times article, Mr. Negroponte was part of an operation to provide laptops to Cambodian children. What was the first English word the students learned to speak?
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