The OLPC foundation is starting to look more and more like a winner, even if they recently had to raise the price of its laptop. Since earlier we’ve known that several developing countries (Brazil, Argentina, Nigeria and Thailand) has shown interest in the project, which aims to supply children with these small and sturdy laptops and now Libya will get 1.2 million laptops and the belonging equipment in the middle of 2008 for a counter investment of $250 million. OLPC isn’t Nicholas Negroponte’s first project with these kind of intentions, but he has earlier worked on a similar project in Cambodia where he amongst others got to hear the first English word from these students: Google.
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