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MIT’s ‘$100 Laptops’ to Go to Pacific Islands

“A small group of internet activists from New Zealand, Australia
the Solomon Islands and the Secretariat of the Pacific Community
(SPC) plan to take the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative to
the Pacific islands.

“The OLPC scheme is the brainchild of a US non-profit
organisation created by MIT Media Lab staff. It hopes to produce a
basic laptop, which it calls the XO-1, equipped with a wi-fi
connection, for US$100 (NZ$130)…”


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