Pakistan Economics Monitor

Tuesday, January 03, 2006

MIT Media Lab: $100 Laptop


I hope the government of Pakistan may take note of this. Urdu Wiki has been started by ordianry people who are just doing it for the sake of love for Urdu. The government of Pakistan has not taken any concrete steps in this regard. This amazing invention can revolutionize the learning process in Paksitan combined with free internet acess and lessons designed in Urdu language.
MIT Media Lab: $100 Laptop: "The MIT Media Lab has launched a new research initiative to develop a $100 laptop: a technology that could revolutionize how we educate the world's children. To achieve this goal, a new, non-profit association, One Laptop per Child (OLPC), has been created. The initiative was first announced by Nicholas Negroponte, Lab chairman and
co-founder, at the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland in January 2005."