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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan unveiled the first working prototype of a $100 laptop at the World Summit on the Information Society in
Annan was joined by his wife, Nane Annan, and Nicholas Negroponte, chairman and co-founder of the Media Lab at MIT, in presenting the laptop to the 200-nation gathering.
The $100 laptop, first announced by Negroponte at the World Economic Forum in January 2005, is an ultra-low-cost, full-featured computer designed to ‘enhance children’s primary and secondary education worldwide’.
It is a joint project of the Media Lab and the nonprofit One Laptop per Child (OLPC) association, which aims to equip the world’s schoolchildren and their teachers with a personal, portable, connected computer.
OLPC is a Delaware-based, nonprofit organization created by faculty members from the MIT Media Lab to design, manufacture and distribute laptops that are sufficiently inexpensive to provide every child in the world access to knowledge and modern forms of education.
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