One Laptop per Child Initiative

Just a quick (not-so) off-topic article for everyone to read from the New York Times World Section.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/11/world/africa/11laptop.html?ref=africa

The article tells about the One Laptop per Child Initiative that Nick Negroponte started and how he presently is working with the government of Libya to get a computer into the hands of every child in school. “Mr. Negroponte said Microsoft refused to sell its Windows software to the project at a price that would make it possible to include in his system.” Now O.L.P.C. will use Linux as mentioned in the article.

Unfortunately, Community Giving is not focusing on anything like this right now, but it is interesting to read about.