{"id":2419,"date":"2005-04-08T00:48:46","date_gmt":"2005-04-08T04:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2005\/04\/08\/\/"},"modified":"2005-04-08T00:48:46","modified_gmt":"2005-04-08T04:48:46","slug":"rural-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2005\/04\/rural-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Rural technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/TECH\/ptech\/04\/04\/hundred.dollar.laptops.ap\/index.html\" rel=\"external\">MIT developing $100 laptops for children in the developing world<\/a><br \/>The mission: to make laptops as ubiquitous as cell phones in technology-deprived regions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a rural Cambodian village where the homes lack electricity, the nighttime darkness is pierced by the glow from laptops that children bring from school. &#8220;When the kids bring them home and open them up, it&#8217;s the brightest light source in the home,&#8221; said MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte. &#8220;Parents love it.&#8221; Negroponte and some MIT colleagues are hard at work on a project they hope will brighten the lives and prospects of hundreds of millions of developing world kids.<\/p>\n<p>The laptops would be mass-produced in orders of no smaller than 1 million units and bought by governments, which would distribute them. Three corporate partners have committed an initial $2 million apiece to the initiative and pledged to serve as suppliers for the &#8220;one laptop per child&#8221; project: Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices Inc., which will bring expertise in processors; &#8220;Do No Evil&#8221; search engine king Google; and News Corp., Rupert Murdoch&#8217;s media company with global satellite capabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT developing $100 laptops for children in the developing worldThe mission: to make laptops as ubiquitous as cell phones in technology-deprived regions. In a rural Cambodian village where the homes lack electricity, the nighttime darkness is pierced by the glow from laptops that children bring from school. &#8220;When the kids bring them home and open [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212,239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog","category-geek-out"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}