A low-cost laptop for every child
Effort to link the world's rural poor to the Internet with a $100 computer gets a boost from the United Nations.
By Christa Case | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
In Cambridge, Mass., Nicholas Negroponte and his team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have been chipping away at a long-held dream: producing a laptop so cheap that governments could afford to link every child in the world to the Internet.
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