I came across this link while checking a chip my company was making for its security.

Its a wonderful idea but I am not sure if India comes in their plan. If yes its a wonderful way to equip children with laptops suited only for them.

Till December 31 2007, they have a scheme where you can donate one laptop to any child in a developing nation and order one for your child.

http://www.laptopgiving.org/en/give-one-get-one.php

Something about the laptop

What is the $100 Laptop, really? read more

"It's an education project, not a laptop project" is how Nicholas Negroponte describes the landmark One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project that leverages affordable technology for education.

Last July, India rejected the OLPC idea as "pedagogically suspect" and not "mature enough to be taken seriously at this stage". The announcement must have come as a blow to the project given the size of the Indian market for the product. read more