Red Hat's experience and core strategy of open collaboration made them a natural fit with this project. Open source and Linux will both reach and engage people in the rest of the world.
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Children are the greatest natural resource of any country, and educating these children is at the root of solving our largest and most complex problems. Yet the best education may not come from sitting in a traditional classroom, but rather through independent interaction and exploration. The development of a 100 laptop will now make this possible for all kids -- especially those in developing nations.Nicholas Negroponte
The initial plan is to start with countries that are big and very different to each other,
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Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.
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If you take any world problem, any issue on the planet, the solution to that problem certainly includes education. In education, the roadblock is the laptop.
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You look at countries like Italy and Spain, which both have low (Internet user) numbers, but Italy could actually be more wired than France,
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