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Domestic One Laptop Per Child: get ‘em quick for disasters!
By WDavidStephenson | September 24, 2007
I’ve written a number of times in the past that Nick Negroponte’s One Laptop Per Child — the 
nifty little laptop aimed at poor children in the developing world — could also be the ultimate tool for effective communication during a disaster because it has a self-power option, and has built-in mesh networking, so you can form an instant network in case there’s no Web access.
Negroponte wrote me last year that he had no intention of making it available for domestic use at this point, but lagging sales to government agencies in the developing world have created an opportunity for smart first responders and others to snap up one of these great babies and help the project.
During two weeks in November, $400 buys you two of the XO’s: one for yourself, and one to be donated to a child in a developing nation.
As the estimable Jim Rapoza reported recently, these are not toys — they have the potential to revolutionize laptop design in general! .
It’s a great deal, and will enable relief agencies, first responders, corporate continuity managers, and others to do well by doing good, so get that order in!
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