Blog Juice for Educational Technology

MIT’s Nicholas Negroponte and associates continue to stay on course to provide a $100 laptop to the world’s children. Here’s the latest:

• The first prototype will be shown on November 17 at the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis.
• By 2007, the target is to be shipping 150 million units to the world annually. This is three times the number of notebooks shipped by all producers now.
• The project is currently working with China, Brazil, Thailand, Egypt, and South Africa.
• Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney has sought to purchase the laptops for all schoolchildren in MIT’s home state.
• On September 28 Negroponte provided an update at the MIT Technology Review Emerging Technology Conference. Andy Carvin of the Digital Divide Network reported on Negroponte’s address: http://www.andycarvin.com/archives/2005/09/creating_the_10.html
• Podcast audio (18 MB) of Negroponte’s address can be found here: http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/acarvin/view?PostID=6807
• New descriptions and pictures have been posted at MIT’s project website: http://laptop.media.mit.edu/
• A synopsis of the innovative technology incorporated into the laptop and an overview of the low-end computing devices market: http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000620061996/