| $100 laptop makes local debut |
| Posted by: Susan Einhorn |
| A cause credited for putting educational computers in the hands of millions of children across the world will come full-circle for one of its Kiwi-born founders today, when he launches the One Laptop Per Child programme here. It\'s now hoped the programme will reach schools across the country and ultimately win government backing. The scheme began eight years ago when Professor Barry Vercoe and colleagues at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) developed a computer dubbed the \"$100 laptop\". Professor Vercoe, who remains a Professor Emeritus of Media Arts and Sciences of the famous Boston institute, had helped bring the specially-designed XO computers to some of the most remote places on Earth before he moved back to New Zealand. |
| Source: The New Zealand Herald (NZ) | Published: October 23rd, 2013 |
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