Nicholas Negroponte Interview - One Laptop per Child (OLPC)

Interview with Nicholas Negroponte - Speaking on behalf of the One Laptop per Child Foundation (OLPC).

Nicholas Negroponte is founder and chairman of the One Laptop per Child non-profit organization. He is currently on leave from MIT, where he was co-founder and director of the MIT Media Laboratory, and the Jerome B. Wiesner Professor of Media Technology.

One Laptop Per Child will be offering a Give One Get One Program in North America through December 31, 2007. For $399, you will be purchasing two XO laptops—one that will be sent to empower a child to learn in a developing nation, and one that will be sent to your child at home.

For more information, please visit http://www.laptop.org/

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[Lona7774]

These people do not have to do ANYTHING for ANYONE.....Instead of spending valuable time, research, money and many other things on trivial pursuits, out of the kindness of their hearts they give their own resources to aid the less fortunate. This is more than I can say for the most of us. It is very easy to sit behind a computer screen and critisize efforts, but for the same people to do something about these issues, I doubt people who show such presumptuousness would even lift a finger.

[bsmithaz]

because they can use it to get all the things you talk about. Giving them food etc will do nothing as it always has.

[yourugua2008]

@DominicMetal1979 While you laugh, 380,000 kids in my country are learning with this computers, and 2 days ago, kids in High-school started to get them. Keep making fun, while you waste your time, my people are learning from this computers. Besides music, and many other programs, now they can also learn English as a second lenguage.

[Mentocthemindtaker]

@DominicMetal1979 So...um...what is it exactly that YOU do to help people less fortunate than yourself...oh, wait...you don't do anything except post stupid comments on YouTube and deride people who are at the very least TRYING to help.

Negroponte is doing something he believes in. Deluded or not, it's a helluva lot more than most people in the world are doing.

[Mentocthemindtaker]

@Naum830 I'd like to point out that Microsoft and Apple were actually opponents to this program. Microsoft tried to get OLPC to use windows on their system and Intel have released a rival system, one they actually profit from...unlike the XO where the vast majority of the money goes into production, shipping and development.

[Mentocthemindtaker]

@Lona7774 Best comment on OLPC I think I've read. Excuse the language but fuckin' ay.

[DominicMetal1979]

At 0:27 his messianic delusions come out. He realizes what he's saying, and quickly tries to water it down and backpedal. On xconomy . com, he said that OLPC "created the netbook market." That's laughable. OLPC is a joke.

[Naum830]

How about stopping multinational companies and their gray-zone channels who are exploiting Republic of Kongo for coltan ore, and where 4 MILLIONS people died violently in the past 6-7 years, instead of this Bono/Gates/Soros humanitarian circus performance for cleaning bad conscience of "good souls"?

Hypocrites.