6 posts and columns on Nicholas Negroponte

The Internet: A Candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize

in News on March 11, 2010 at 2:00 pm PT

The Internet has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for 2010–but should it be? The nomination was proposed by the Italian version of technology magazine Wired and has so far been endorsed by 11 people including 2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi and Nicholas Negroponte, founder of One Laptop Per Child.

OLPC Foundation Annouces “Keep One, Fire One” Employee Drive

in News on January 8, 2009 at 7:38 am PT

Since its launch four years ago, the One Laptop Per Child foundation has fallen far short of its initial goal of supplying Third World countries with 150 million laptops by the end of 2008. To date, little more than 500,000 children have received laptops. Though a noble idea, providing $100 $200 laptops to children in developing nations clearly hasn’t quite caught on. So it was only a matter of time before the project was forced to rejigger its operations.

The $100 Laptop–Still Not a Bargain?

in News on November 26, 2007 at 12:02 am PT

With all the holiday hubbub, don’t miss this great piece in The Wall Street Journal over the weekend by Steve Stecklow and James Bandler, which chronicles the bumpy road of the much-hyped $100 laptop project, spearheaded by MIT’s Nicholas Negroponte. Walt Mossberg and I have had Negroponte at two of our D conferences to talk [...]

Uh, Thanks, Uncle Nick–That’s Almost a MacBook. Did You Save the Receipt?

in News on September 24, 2007 at 12:01 am PT

The XO Laptop (pictured above) wasn’t engineered with affluent children or the tech-industry subculture in mind, but they’re getting a chance to own one nonetheless thanks to a new program from OLPC–the One Laptop Per Child project. Under “Give 1 Get 1,” Americans and Canadians can purchase two of the pared-down laptops for $399: one [...]