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Sub-Saharan Africa: 100-dollar laptop

Written byLuisetta Mudie
Posted 13 October 2005 20 years ago

Oscar H. Blayton is intrigued by the MIT Media Laboratory's $100 laptop initiative, but worries that the One Laptop Per Child initiative could get bogged down in red tape, as it plans to distribute computers via government-backed aid programs.

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Written byLuisetta Mudie

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