The Laptop Crusade

This paper discusses a laptop project, One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project. It´s one of the biggest nonprofit technology-based projects and it´s only the first phase of a program that seeks to put a staggering 100 million laptops into the hands of developing-world schoolchildren in the next couple of years. The One Laptop effort is just one of at least 20 low-cost computing initiatives under way worldwide. But it´s the biggest, best-funded, and most hyped of all the initiatives, so it´s the one that will almost certainly determine whether the mass distribution of PCs to children becomes an enduring component of national development or just another well-meaning but ultimately misguided experiment in social engineering