Bridging the 'knowledge divide' with a $100 Laptop.(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Quanta Computer Inc., contract)(Brief Article)
T H E Journal (Technological Horizons In Education), February, 2006
THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS of One Laptop Per Child (laptop.media.mit.edu)--a nonprofit group created by faculty members at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to design, manufacture, and distribute inexpensive, hand-crankable laptops for children around the world--has chosen Quanta Computer Inc. (www.quantatw.com/e default.asp) of Taiwan as the design manufacturer for OLPC's $100 Laptop Initiative. Quanta has agreed to devote significant engineering resources from its Quanta Research Institute in the first half of 2006 in order to bring the product to market by years end. Initially, from 5 million to 15 million units will be sold to the governments of seven different countries (China, India, Brazil, Argentina, Egypt, Nigeria, and Thailand), to then be handed out...
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