The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project featuring the Children’s Machine, $100 laptop has announced possibly making their product available to the public. The $100 laptop was announced in 2005 at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. An initiative to build cheap yet fully functional laptop computers to be distributed to and used by children in developing countries. The idea that a laptop computer could be made to cost as little as $100 however did not go unnoticed by consumers around the world. It was announced at first though, that the Children’s Machine would only be available through government contracts to school children in developing regions of the world.
Today OLPC is looking into ways of making the laptop available to the general public under the condition of having to buy two laptops, with one being delivered to the buyer and the other to a child in one of the countries participating in the OLPC project. Still, it sounds like a good deal and an amazing opportunity to give the gift of education to children who may otherwise never have access to computers and the Internet as a learning tool.
