http://www.ng2000.com/news.php?tp=laptops

The One Laptop Per Child project receives its first shipment of
low-cost Linux laptops that are intended for children in
emerging-economy nations.

- Bobb - wrote:
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>> http://www.ng2000.com/news.php?tp=laptops
>>
>> The One Laptop Per Child project receives its first shipment of
>> low-cost Linux laptops that are intended for children in
>> emerging-economy nations.
>>
> on the other hand ...
> http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/art...ptop-per-child
>
> November 30, 2006
> Thailand Nixes One Laptop Per Child
> Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child project had big plans for
> Thailand: The nation was set to play host to one of the project's five
> pilot programs, and it was expected to be OLPC's flagship in Asia. But
> politics seem to have gotten in the way.
>
> A September coup effectively ended the career of Thaksin Shinawatra, the
> Thai prime minister whose cabinet had pledged to buy 250,000 of Mr.
> Negroponte's $100 laptops, according to The Nation, a Bangkok newspaper.
> Thailand's new administration now says it has no interest in the
> project, which would have provided all of the nation's primary-school
> students with the low-cost machines.
>
> "We will not focus too much on technology and materials," said Wijit
> Srisaarn, Thailand's education minister, this week. "We will focus on
> substance."

I think that's unfortunate. I doubt they'll find a way to put a library
in each child's home for less than $100 each.