A laptop promise
It may be as revolutionary in security terms as in economic terms CAMBRIDGE: The $100 laptops planned for children around the world might turn out to be as revolutionary for their security measures as for their low-cost economics. The One Laptop Per Child project, a non-profit venture begun at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, aims to improve education by giving children brightly-coloured, hand-cranked, wireless enabled portable computers. Governments are to buy the laptops - beginning in 2007 with up to seven million machines in Thailand, Nigeria, Brazil and Argentina - and hand them to kids for them to own. The machines have garnered the most attention - and some scepticism - for the design elements that will help keep their price low. Among other things, the computers will employ the free Linux operating system, flash memory instead of a hard drive and a microprocessor. - AP Shadab Husain Mo: 9335206224 To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
