The+Digital+Divide

The Digital Divide is the is the socio-economic difference between communities in their access to computers andthe Internet.

=The $100 Laptop= In an effort to reduce the ever growing gap between the information rich and information poor, recently a company called OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) unveiled plans to research and develop a $100 laptop. Children could begin to use the laptop like a textbook, and become an information tool for children or villages. The laptop would be primiarly only available to lower income sections, and primarily through government grants

The laptop will run primarily on a linux operating system in an effort to reduce the cost. Linux is available as an open source operating system. More information can be found about this initiative at the following [|hyperlink]