Voa development report - Project Aims to Raise Demand for Laptops for Poor Children

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is the VOA Special English Development Report. The project as One Laptop Per Child has a new campaign bring its computers to children in developing countries. The will urge people in the United States and Canada spend just under four hundred dollars for two laptops. will go to a child in a poor country. other will go to the buyer. The "Give One, One" campaign will start on November twelfth for two only. Project officials think the donations may help persuade of developing countries to buy more. The green-and-white machines specially designed for children in the developing world. The , called the XO, does not use very much power. if no electricity is available, users can charge the by hand by turning a crank. The computer uses free, open-source operating system Linux. The color display can to a black-and-white image so users are able to it even in bright sunlight. Also, the laptops are to connect wirelessly to each other, as well as Internet if local service is available. They have a . And they are built to resist dirt and moisture. production is expected to begin in October, once a design is approved. The XO laptop is currently being in Cambodia, Thailand, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Uruguay, Brazil and Peru. Bender is head of software and content for the One Laptop Per Child project. He says officials hope establish a process through the United Nations for countries make proposals to get free laptops. Donations may be to launch a laptop program in some poor countries, says, but governments are needed to keep it going. between nations could also help. Italy, for example, has to buy fifty thousand laptops for Ethiopia. The project led by Nicholas Negroponte, the founding director of the Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was for three million orders, but so far that has happened. In two thousand five he announced the idea a computer that would cost one hundred dollars. Right , the cost is almost one hundred ninety dollars. Several in Africa and South America have already placed orders. Bender says countries that buy laptops could still receive through donations. And that's the VOA Special English Development , written by Jill Moss. Im Steve Ember.

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