
… and Mexico gets in on the action
By Liam Tung
Published: 3 December 2007 09:01 GMT
One month after the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) charity went into mass production with its $188 laptop, the Peruvian government has signed a contract to purchase 260,000 units.
Nicholas Negroponte, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor and founder of the project, announced the deal on Saturday. He also revealed Mexican billionaire, Carlos Slim, had ordered 50,000 units for distribution in Mexico.
In November, the OLPC charity contracted Taiwan's Quanta Computer to start producing the green-and-white computer in its new Changshu manufacturing centre, which is located northwest of Shanghai.
The first countries to place mass orders for the rugged green and white laptops were Uruguay and Mongolia.
Ivan Krstić, the director of security architecture for the OLPC project, said Uruguayan water and mobile phone utility companies have allowed the organisation to plant wireless access points on existing towers to facilitate the laptop's use.
Liam Tung writes for ZDNet Australia
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