Terry King wrote: > These many questions are best answered by the MIT website at: > http://laptop.media.mit.edu/faq.html > >From the FAQ, some interesting things:
" The idea is to distribute the machines through those ministries of education willing to adopt a policy of "One Laptop per Child." Initial discussions have been held with China, Brazil, Thailand, and Egypt. Additional countries will be selected for beta testing. Initial orders will be limited to a minimum of one million units (with appropriate financing)." I'd like to know more about the policy. And there's that minimum order. I don't think China will bite, and based on the politics related to the FTAA, I don't think Brazil will either. Venezuala will have computer building ability next year through an agreement with Chinese businesspeople, so computer costs in South America and the Caribbean should decrease since the middle man will be more local. " Our preliminary schedule is to have units ready for shipment by the end of 2006 or early 2007. Manufacturing will begin when 5 to 10 million machines have been ordered and paid for in advance." 500 million dollars to start. Wow. OK, so it's not MIT Media Lab, it's One Laptop per Child (OLPC) - and yet the link is http://laptop.media.mit.edu/faq.html (a link from the Media lab's site), and Negroponte's and the MIT Media lab's name in the press... I think I've said what I have to say on all of this in quite a few permutations; the facts are all there (and being ignored doesn't mean that they are not there). I'm leaving this one alone now, unless something new and interesting comes along. -- Taran Rampersad Presently in: San Fernando, Trinidad [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.knowprose.com http://www.easylum.net http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Taran Coming on January 1st, 2006: http://www.OpenDepth.com "Criticize by creating." — Michelangelo _______________________________________________ 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.
