The program, conceptualized by MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte aims to provide children in third world countries with laptops, to make it easier for children to grasp and learn their lessons. According to the project, each child in government supported schools will get an easy to use laptop, offering 128 MB of memory, 512 MB of storage and run the Linux open-source operating system. The next step for Negroponte's team is to begin the 900 unit production, by early in 2007. Most of these units will go to programmers who will help to develop software for these laptops.
India was part of the program initially until Indian Education Secretary Sudeep Banerjee reversed the decision to back the OLPC project.
Read more here.
I sure that this is the next genration to benificail and genration must go on very high speed in their stream and embitions. My view it is good step to provide that information which is tehy wnat,
