A great plan is in the works to help third world countries get an internet presence.
The OLPC, One Laptop Per Child, spent last week doing a test production run of the notebook they have designed that will, if all goes well, allow third world countries to buy laptops for $100 and give them to school children. This would allow them to keep pace, from a technological standpoint, with the rest of the world.
I've been following this story for several years, and have been quite impressed with the results. The systems feature a 366 MHz AMD Geode processor with 128 MB of RAM. For storage it has a 512 MB Flash unit. There are also four USB ports as well as a Wi-Fi chipset that is provided by Marvell.
Currently the price is expected to be about $130 each, but it is expected to drop to the promised $100 by 2008.
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