“The very worst idea in international development circles is the
One Laptop Per Child scheme being fronted by academic Nicholas
Negroponte. The idea is that developing country budgets and
development aid will be spent buying computers for up to two
billion children in the developing world. The organisers want these
computers to cost $100 each (although they haven’t actually been
able to meet that target price) and be ordered in minimum
quantities of 1m units. They will be handed out without
charge…”