Re: [DDN] Taiwan's Quanta to manufacture MIT $100 laptop
Here's an excerpt of an article I picked up in a newsletter for Asian IT journalists: South China Morning Post's tech editor Michael Logan noted that in his podcast interview with Professor Nicholas Negroponte of the Media Labs, that the laptop project was about providing the poor with the basic infrastructure of education. “This is a humanitarian effort,” said Negroponte. “The fact we use a laptop project is just incidental. This is an education project and not a laptop project.” Here's the URL for said podcast: http://streaming.scmp.com/podcasting/upload/tech_two_dec06.mp3 Regards. -- Daniel O. Escasa [EMAIL PROTECTED] contributor, Free Software Magazine (http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com) personal blog at http://descasa.i.ph -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Or how I learned to stop worrying and love email again ___ 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.
Re: [DDN] Taiwan's Quanta to manufacture MIT $100 laptop
That clearly raises its viability to begin with.. Regardless of the differences of opinion on the meaning of $100 laptop, even if it extends the boundary of computer's reach by another degree, it should be welcomed. The questions about how to use it and how to benefit more or better must go on in parallel. On 12/14/05, Andy Carvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This was just posted to Yahoo's homepage -andy > > MIT Picks Maker of $100 Laptop > > Taiwan's Quanta, the world's largest maker of notebook computers, will > manufacture an ultra-low-cost laptop developed by Nicholas Negroponte, > the chairman of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab. > Negroponte, who is also chairman of the One Laptop Per Child non-profit > group, has said he expects the laptops to be available to governments > next year at a price of $100 each. A prototype of the laptop was > unveiled at the recent U.N.-sponsored World Summit on the Information > Society (WSIS) in Tunis. > > Under terms of an agreement with One Laptop Per Child, Quanta will > devote engineering resources to develop the $100 notebook design during > the first half of the year, according to a statement issued by the > group. At the same time, Quanta and the non-profit organization will > explore the production of a commercial version of the laptop. One Laptop > Per Child did not immediately respond to an e-mail request for > additional information. > > > > One Laptop Per Child said trials of the notebook are planned for China, > India, Brazil, Argentina, Egypt, Nigeria, and Thailand, with 1 million > notebooks to be shipped to each of these countries. [Massachusetts has > also placed an order - ac] In addition, the group expects "an additional > modest allocation" of the notebooks to be shipped to developers in other > countries. > > > > http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20051214/tc_pcworld/123921 > -- > --- > Andy Carvin > Program Director > EDC Center for Media & Community > acarvin @ edc . org > http://www.digitaldivide.net > http://katrina05.blogspot.com > Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com > --- > ___ > DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list > DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org > http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide > To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] the word UNSUBSCRIBE in > the body of the message. > -- Satish Jha Special Adviser, Kofi Annan Centre for Excellence in ICTs Principal Adviser, vMoksha Technologies Co-Chair, Economic Opportunities Commission, WITFOR Management Consultant - Technology Strategy, Management and Program/Project Management www.vmoksha.com; www.dpindia.org; www.aiti-kace.com.gh; www.witfor.org ___ 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.
[DDN] Taiwan's Quanta to manufacture MIT $100 laptop
This was just posted to Yahoo's homepage -andy MIT Picks Maker of $100 Laptop Taiwan's Quanta, the world's largest maker of notebook computers, will manufacture an ultra-low-cost laptop developed by Nicholas Negroponte, the chairman of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab. Negroponte, who is also chairman of the One Laptop Per Child non-profit group, has said he expects the laptops to be available to governments next year at a price of $100 each. A prototype of the laptop was unveiled at the recent U.N.-sponsored World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Tunis. Under terms of an agreement with One Laptop Per Child, Quanta will devote engineering resources to develop the $100 notebook design during the first half of the year, according to a statement issued by the group. At the same time, Quanta and the non-profit organization will explore the production of a commercial version of the laptop. One Laptop Per Child did not immediately respond to an e-mail request for additional information. One Laptop Per Child said trials of the notebook are planned for China, India, Brazil, Argentina, Egypt, Nigeria, and Thailand, with 1 million notebooks to be shipped to each of these countries. [Massachusetts has also placed an order - ac] In addition, the group expects "an additional modest allocation" of the notebooks to be shipped to developers in other countries. http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20051214/tc_pcworld/123921 -- --- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media & Community acarvin @ edc . org http://www.digitaldivide.net http://katrina05.blogspot.com Blog: http://www.andycarvin.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.
