http://blog.famundo.com/articles/2007/04/30/more-olpc-news en-us 40 <p><a href=http://www.laptop.org/><img src="http://blog.famundo.com/files/olpc.gif" ></a></p> <p>This is a project I have been following for a while now and find it interesting that the the nonprofit One Laptop per Child project may reverse its previous position of not distributing their kid-friendly laptops in the United States.</p> <blockquote> <p>We can&#8217;t ignore the United States. ... We are looking at it very seriously,&#8221; Nicholas Negroponte, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology academic who founded the project, told analysts and reporters.</p> </blockquote> <blockquote> <p>The machines would go at a higher price to U.S. schools, he said, because more resources are invested in American education than in developing nations, even in the poorest U.S. regions.</p> </blockquote> <p>Read the whole article <a href=http://news.com.com/U.S.+schools+may+join+inexpensive-laptop+project/2100-1041_3-6179766.html?tag=fd_nbs_ent&#38;tag=nl.e703>here</a>.</p> Mon, 30 Apr 2007 23:08:00 -0400 urn:uuid:92f222b8-0023-40c2-b372-11ee0034bc42 richard.kuhlenschmidt@famundo.com (Richard Kuhlenschmidt) http://blog.famundo.com/articles/2007/04/30/more-olpc-news Technology one laptop per child