Pledge “100laptop”
"I will purchase the $100 laptop at $300 but only if 100,000 other will do the same."
— Mike Liveright, digital charity supporter (contact)
Deadline to sign up by: 31st October 2006
3,677 people signed up, 96323 more were needed
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Nicholas Negroponte has previewed of the $100 laptop that he has designed for students in the developing world. " One Laptop Per Child - a Preview of the Hundred Dollar Laptop http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/00... "
The suggestion has been made that he also offer it for sale for ~$300 to the rest of us so that we do have an interesting machine and can help to support the cost computers for the developing world. If he does offer it, then I will buy one at three times the cost and thus contribute to supplying two to the proposed users.
I suggest that you might want to also pledge so that he would consider this "We Purchase, They Benefit" option.
This pledge is now closed, as its deadline has passed. You might be interested in these other pledges:
- donate £5 a month to become a Patron of TheyWorkForYou
- arrange a press conference with the GEMA and representatives of the media, in order to to arouse public interest.
- contribute $20 to the "Stop the Silence" charity, for the victims of child sexual abuse, on the behalf of Daniel Felix for his marathon run with the Marathon Charity Partners (MCP) fund raiser group
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- donate £5 a month to become a Patron of TheyWorkForYou (2 people)
- arrange a press conference with the GEMA and representatives of the media, in order to to arouse public interest. (1 person)
- contribute $20 to the "Stop the Silence" charity, for the victims of child sexual abuse, on the behalf of Daniel Felix for his marathon run with the Marathon Charity Partners (MCP) fund raiser group (1 person)
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It was not properly promoted
Promote this idea more. We need mass media targeting for public action on a national/international scale. People care. People want to do this. Tell them!
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best,
Tom from PledgeBank
I would pledge in a heartbeat, but I (like many others) didn't find out about it until I saw the news that it failed.
EXTEND THE PLEDGE and see what happens.
Can I still sign up ?
I'd suggest - extend the pledge, and couple it with some smart viral marketing. That should do the trick.
There are enough technology lovers who could support this cause.
What a poor job at advertising this thing. I'm glad that once it was finally over it made it to slashdot. Sure it was on slashback, but c'mon lumped together with crap stories.
What this petition needs is about $4000 to put ads in wired, linux journal, make, and a few other magazines.
I am all for the idea.
I'm not suggesting that 96,000 more people would sign up if you kept it open another month but I don't see the reason for any deadline ever. When you get 100,000 pledges, you start collecting money. Until then, you collect pledges. Some things build momentum slowly but after they do keep it up for a long time. Why not ospen this back up? Oct. 31, 2006 is arbitrary and unnecesary. Those kids deserve the computers regardless of how long it takes.
I'm not suggesting that 96,000 more people would sign up if you kept it open another month but I don't see the reason for any deadline ever. When you get 100,000 pledges, you start collecting money. Until then, you collect pledges. Some things build momentum slowly but after they do keep it up for a long time. Why not ospen this back up? Oct. 31, 2006 is arbitrary and unnecesary. Those kids deserve the computers regardless of
how long it takes.
Good Luck, I believe this is a truly noble project, and I wish you great success.
John
1. Shipping and insurance
2. Logistics
3. Training & support
4. Administrative & management cost?
Or will it (100$) cover everything (all of above)? Who will pay for the Laptops? Who will pay for after sales support? Who is going to gain from this project - The country spending some 150 million dollar (+ongoing support cost) for a million Laptops or the country receiving some 150 million dollar for a million Laptops?
And a kid who's starving won't be taking the time to read. Even Bill Gates Sr. figured this out when some time ago he took a trip to Africa and was shown a poor village's proudest posession, a single workstation hooked up to the village's sole electrical outlet. He realised that what village needed most at that time was not a computer, but a refrigerator.
Tech toys like these have theire place and moment can help but the basick foundation of the pyramid must be built first. You need decent health, places to sleep, and a dependable food supply before cranking laptops become not only a luxury but a dangerous drain on time and energy that must be spent on survival.
Africa and the Third World aren't just poorer versions of your hometown, they're places in deep distress with a profound lack of the basic neccessities of life, and sweeping plagues which are taking an enormous toll. These are the problems that must be solved FIRST and foremost before the higher goals can be tackled.
starving won't be taking the time to read."
I disagree. At least some of the kids are getting by on the little food they have. Yes, they need food, but that's enough. When I read books in the library, I get so absorbed that I forget to eat.
"You need decent health, places
to sleep, and a dependable food supply before cranking laptops
become not only a luxury but a dangerous drain on time and
energy that must be spent on survival."
I disagree. Laptops (or computers) means access to information and education. This will lead to decent health and better economic understanding. This knowledge and motivation is what is needed to not only survive, but thrive.
"These are the problems that must be solved FIRST
and foremost before the higher goals can be tackled."
I don't think this is a "higher goal." A higher goal would be supercomputers and computing research centers. These are very cheap, very basic laptops. They offer a whole world of ideas and knowledge that they need to enrich their lives and improve all areas of the process of survival.
suggest: restart the thing!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and make "more noise about it" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i'd like to participate, too!!, thomas
I vouch to buy one of these for $300+ if my purchase gets TWO OTHERS into the hands of a poor child for free!!!
regards,
Wayne
what I think for the Microsoft to do, is
to make larger LCD with Windows OS,and make the memory card 4GB slot options,
so the price cost for OLPC,12in LCD.Win.OS,SD 4GB slot card,total =
150$+25$
Total will be 175$ wholesale and retail sale 200$.the child will pay 100$ and his government the other 100$
And I think as an expirt in microelectronics technology this can be made,in the comming soon future.
In 2006 we had new cheap color e-ink
larg size screen and fast cheap flash memory up to 4GB ,when we ask about cheap cost
notebook pc we must expect pc less than
the laptop we see in the market now,the poor children see it only not use it.
I ask Mr.Bill at microsoft to start produce the second OLPC version,and to helpe the children in poor world in action not just talking,and if Mr.Bill move to do it I will give his company my new invention free to add it to OLPC to be the best in design ,for the poor children ,the larg 12in screen is very important for the child to use in education.
Zaky