$100 Laptop - One Laptop Per Child

One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) is a non-profit organization that is leading the $100 laptop project. OLPC was created by MIT Media Lab to develop and manufacture the laptops. The goal is to equip every child in the world with a laptop to enable access to information and modern education.

The organization and the project was announce by World Economic Forum in January 2005. The project is funded by sponsoring companies like Google, Red Hat, AMD, Brightstar Corporation, News Corporation and Nortel Networks. A working prototype was demonstrated at the World Summit on the Information Society.

Some known basic design requirements are as follows.

• minimal power consumption, with a design target of 2-3 W total power consumption
• minimal production cost, with a target of $100 per laptop for production runs of one million units
• a cool look, implying an innovative styling in its physical appearance
• eBook functionality with extremely low power consumption
• the software provided with the laptop be open source and free software

For more info please visit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Laptop_Per_Child
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/$100_laptop

Some criticism found here.

http://fonly.typepad.com/fonlyblog/2005/11/problems_with_t.html