Thursday, January 8, 2009
OLPC Foundation Annouces “Keep One, Fire One” Employee Drive
Since its launch four years ago, the One Laptop Per Child foundation has fallen far short of its initial goal of supplying Third World countries with 150 million laptops by the end of 2008. To date, little more than 500,000 children have received laptops. Though a noble idea, providing $100 $200 laptops to children in developing nations clearly hasn’t quite caught on. So it was only a matter of time before the project was forced to rejigger its operations.
