One Laptop per Child (OLPC) was started in 2002 by Nicholas Negroponte, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Its mission is to provide low-cost laptops, known as the XO, to children around the world specially living in third world countries. The machines are planned to cost $100 and have been especially designed for use in remote and harsh environments where there is little access to electricity or the internet.
No doubt computers are important in this information technology age but do you really think that these laptops and such other fancy gadgets will really do the required for betterment of education in under developed world? I think it’s another fancy slogan.
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