UN debut for $100 laptop for poor

From EndCanadianPoverty.ca

• Date: November 17th, 2005
• Source: BBC News
• Link to article: UN debut for $100 laptop for poor

"A prototype of a cheap and robust laptop for pupils has been welcomed as an "expression of global solidarity" by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. The green machine was showcased for the first time by MIT's Nicholas Negroponte at the UN net summit in Tunis. He plans to have millions of $100 machines in production within a year."