Walter Bender, OLPC's president for software and content. Credit: Christopher Churchill

In January 2005, MIT Media Lab cofounder Nicholas Negroponte announced the One Laptop per Child program (OLPC), which was intended to improve education in poor countries by putting $100 laptops in the hands of schoolchildren (see "Philanthropy's New Prototype," November/December 2006). The laptop would not go into production, Negroponte declared, until OLPC had received five million orders from governments around the world.

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