Back when the One Laptop Per Child project was announced, and Nicholas Negroponte was still claiming a $100 dollar laptop price point, Taran Rampersad noted that its really a $100 million dollar laptop - you have to order them in one million unit blocks.
The 2B1 Children's Machine is now $138 dollars per laptop, making the minimum order price $138 million just for the laptops. How might this price affect a country like Argentina, a relatively rich developing world country and one of the initial OLPC partner countries? I just did a quick analysis on OLPC News http://www.olpcnews.com and came up with a startling discovery: $138 million is half of the non-salary education budget nationwide of $300 million per year, and one million laptops would only reach 10% of the student body. Oh and $138 million only buys laptops, not any peripheral equipment or teacher training. More here: http://www.olpcnews.com/countries/argentina/olpc_in_argentina_by.html Wayan http://www.olpcnews.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.
