Nonprofit Introducing 0 Laptop For Children The laptop will be distributed free to children as a tool to help them educate themselves. By Eric Chabrow, informationweek Sept. 28, 2005 URL: www.informationweek.com Talk about being an optimist. Nicholas Negroponte, founder and chairman of mit’s Media Lab, is heading up a project with the goal to distribute specially designed laptops, each with a price tag of less than 0, to more than 150 million schoolchildren within the next three years. That’s an amazing statistic, considering that PC makers will manufacture only about 50 million laptops this year. In fact, getting manufacturing partners to produce so many laptops presents the program’s biggest hurdle. Negroponte says producing 150 million of anything is a significant challenge. Though daunting, he says, the problem is being solved by “mere resolve.” Another problem that must be addressed by the not-for-profit group, One Laptop Per Child: a possible gray market in which laptops distributed free to children are instead illicitly sold by parents or others, especially those in third-world countries. One way to thwart this is allowing PC makers to manufacture commercial versions of the laptop at a relatively inexpensive price, say 0 each, with part of the profit going back to One Laptop Per Child. Negroponte contends the laptop is a tool to help children teach themselves, a more cost-effective alternative than hiring additional teachers. “A lot of learning comes form …

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