Dear Emanuel: You are not going to get the hundred dollar computer soon. It is NOT YET PRODUCED. They have just used the WSIS event to make a high profile announcement with a prototype. When it is ready you and I cannot buy it. The minimum order they would accept is a million units! One should have one hundred million dollars to buy this gadget. Then the million pieces should be distributed to children, many of them living in remote villages.
We would better devote our time and energy on pursuits which will yield some concrete results. As Larry Press said, if a government has so much money they may think of investing part of it in communications infrastructure and the rest in setting up community telecentres. Arun > Dear Terry, > > Where can one find these 100 dollar laptops? Are they real? We really > would do with such facilities here in Africa. Or is it one of those offers > only applicable to 'US Residents' ? So many 'free' computer offers are not > applicable to addressees from the developing (or is underdeveloped) > countries. > > Apologies for being not so diplomatic. These are only voices of the > desparate. > > > Warmest regards, > > Emmanuel > > > >> I put up a few photos I took the other day at WSIS, of the Laptop >> physical >> mockup, a Beta running version which I got to play with for a couple of >> minutes, and the interested crowds, as seen from inside the booth. >> There >> are also a couple of shots from the UNESCO meeting on making the >> Knowledge >> Society work, where Nick Negroponte had an interesting exchange with the >> Communications Minister of (I think) Mali, who was trying to decide how >> much of his budget to spend on ICT infrastructure. >> >> Take a look at: >> http://www.terryking.us/photos/WSIS2005/$100laptop >> >> Other Subject: Negroponte also made a controversial prediction, during a >> discussion of multilingualism, that at some future time, there would be >> one >> world language, and the "Local" languages would be "Second languages". >> Pressed on what the "Universal" language would be, he said "A mixture of >> English and Chinese"... >> >> >> Regards, Terry King ...On The Mediterranean in Carthage, Tunisia >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> _______________________________________________ >> DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list >> DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org >> http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide >> To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. >> > > > _______________________________________________ > DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list > DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org > http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide > To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. > _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
