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Interesting announcement from One Laptop Per Child today: the "Give 1, Get 1" program, in which Americans and Canadians will be able to spend $399 to buy one laptop and donate a second to a child in a developing nation. I heard rumors about this plan while at SIGGRAPH (which were, of course, firmly squelched by the XO staff at the time), and was
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when i first heard about the laptop scheme, i thought that one of the downsides was that they didn't want to make the cheap laptops available to kids in the first world. this sounds like a great way of maintaining their intentions while also expanding access. i would love to see american kids using these to connect to fellow XO users around the world.
thanks for linking to this.
*joys to you*
ken
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