BBC NEWS | Technology | UN debut for $100 laptop for poor: "Collaboration will also be encouraged by using open-source software, which the children could develop themselves and use in local communities.

'Every single problem you can think of, poverty, peace, the environment, is solved with education or including education,' said Professor Negroponte.

'So when we make this available, it is an education project, not a laptop project. The digital divide is a learning divide - digital is the means through which children learn leaning. This is, we believe, the way to do it.'

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