Knowledge@SMU
Publication Type
Journal Article
Publication Date
9-2009
Abstract
When Nicholas Negroponte mooted the idea of a US$100 laptop four years ago, he was met with scepticism. Undaunted, he and his team signed up partners and sponsors. Today, the end product, once described as “impossible”, is said to be inspiration behind netbooks. However, technological advancement was not the driving force behind the XO, as this laptop is called. Negroponte was motivated, instead, by the educational needs of developing nations, seeing that a large number of children in these countries receive little or no education. But just how far can inexpensive laptops go to address the needs of poverty-stricken communities?
Disciplines
Business | Technology and Innovation
Copyright Owner and Holder
Copyright © Singapore Management University 2012
Licece/Creative Commons Licence
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Article ID
1237
Subject(s)
Technology and Information Systems
Citation
Knowledge@SMU.
Changing the world, one laptop at a time. (2009).
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/ksmu/384