Skip ahead to the 43 minute mark for an interesting short perspective on this issue. Bill Gates Speech at the Microsoft Government Leaders Forum Americas 2006 http://www.microsoft.com/events/executives/billgates.mspx
Mike Michael F. Pitsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 6:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [DDN] NEGROPONTE STICKS TO HIS GUNS > > > Nicholas Negroponte, professor at MIT and former director of the > university's Media Lab, has responded to critics by reasserting his > determination to develop a $100 laptop for developing nations. > Negroponte said he has raised $29 million for his initiative, called > One Laptop per Child, which has the backing of companies including > Google, Advanced Micro Devices, Red Hat, and Quanta. Chief among > Negroponte's critics are Microsoft and Intel, both of which have said > the idea is fundamentally flawed. Negroponte dismissed those comments, > insisting that providing such technology to children in developing > nations will have a real impact on education and other kinds of > development. Negroponte said his organization still plans to begin > shipping computers--between 5 and 10 million of them--in early 2007 to > countries including China, India, Egypt, Brazil, Thailand, Nigeria, > and Argentina. > Wired News, 4 April 2006 > http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70584-0.html > > Bonnie Bracey Sutton bbracey at aol com _______________________________________________ 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.
