{"id":78,"date":"2006-01-28T04:49:56","date_gmt":"2006-01-28T03:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/2006\/undp-and-the-100-laptop\/"},"modified":"2010-11-14T01:45:38","modified_gmt":"2010-11-13T23:45:38","slug":"undp-and-the-100-dollar-laptop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/?p=78","title":{"rendered":"UNDP and the $100 Laptop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.undp.org\/\">UNDP<\/a> has decided to back the <a href=\"http:\/\/laptop.media.mit.edu\/\">One Laptop Per Child<\/a>-project, initiated by Nicolas Negroponte, <a href=\"http:\/\/today.reuters.com\/news\/newsarticle.aspx?type=technologyNews&amp;storyid=2006-01-26T134228Z_01_L26587046_RTRUKOC_0_US-DAVOS-LAPTOP.xml\">Routers<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/H\/HUNDRED_DOLLAR_LAPTOP?SITE=FLTAM&amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT\">AP<\/a> reports. The United Nations will work together with the non-profit foundation, to help sell the $100 computer to governments.<\/p>\n<p>Also, Lo?c Le Meur posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loiclemeur.com\/english\/2006\/01\/podcast_nichola.html\">podcast with Nicholas Negroponte<\/a>, from the Economic Forum in Davos.<\/p>\n<p>Intel however, seems <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/facesinthenews\/2005\/12\/12\/intel-barrett-mit-cx_cn_1212autofacescan03.html\">not impressed<\/a> with the initiative, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2005\/12\/09\/intel-chairman-harshes-on-mits-olpc\/\">calling the cheap computer<\/a> merely &#8220;a gadget&#8221;, since they seem to believe it lacks both capacity and software. Yeah, I bet you&#8217;re scared: If people could put such low-spec computer to good use &#8211; how can you make people buy faster and faster chips? Besides, it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roarweb.com\/2005\/12\/12\/is-the-100-laptop-a-gadget\/\">is a learning tool<\/a>, and it may well be <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/news.ars\/post\/20051210-5735.html\">beside the point<\/a> whether or not it can compete with products costing many, many times the price.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNDP has decided to back the One Laptop Per Child-project, initiated by Nicolas Negroponte, Routers and AP reports. The United Nations will work together with the non-profit foundation, to help sell the $100 computer to governments. Also, Lo?c Le Meur posted a podcast with Nicholas Negroponte, from the Economic Forum in Davos. Intel however, seems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ict4d"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":380,"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}