Give One, Get One Laptop Program Starting Nov. 12
The project that hopes to supply developing-world schoolchildren with US$188 laptops will sell the rugged little computers to US residents and Canadians for US$400 each, with the profit going toward a machine for a poor country. The One Laptop Per Child project expects that its “Give One, Get One” promotion will result in a pool of thousands of donated laptops that will stimulate demand in countries hesitant to join the program. It will be offered for only two weeks in November.
The catch is that “Give One, Get One” will run only from Nov. 12 to Nov. 26. Thailand, Uruguay, Nigeria, Brazil, Libya and Rwanda are among the countries that could be in the first wave of laptop customers, though specifics have not been announced.
