ICT SupportMIT Is Crafting Cheap -- But Invaluable – Laptops.

MIT Is Crafting Cheap -- But Invaluable – Laptops. Kids in Poor Nations Would Benefit. David A. Fahrenthold. Washington Post. Online November 2005. …scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say they're close to creating a device that would fulfill this ambitious vision -- a tough, kid-friendly laptop that could be sold to poor countries for $100. ... "It will change . . . the way children everywhere think about themselves in relation to the world," said Seymour Papert…The product of all this will be made public at the United Nations' World Summit on the Information Society, when Secretary General Kofi Annan and MIT Media Lab Chairman Nicholas Negroponte unveil a green-and-yellow computer with a sheath of black rubber around its edges. …