US$100 Laptop (OLPC)

OLPC or one laptop per child project costing as much as US$100. What is behind the mission about this project.

Most of the nearly two–billion children in the developing world are inadequately educated, or receive no education at all. One in three does not complete the fifth grade.

The individual and societal consequences of this chronic global crisis are profound. Children are consigned to poverty and isolation—just like their parents—never knowing what the light of learning could mean in their lives. At the same time, their governments struggle to compete in a rapidly evolving, global information economy, hobbled by a increasingly and vast urban underclass that cannot support itself, much less contribute to the commonwealth, because it lacks the tools to do so.

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