One Laptop Per Child

Nicholas Negroponte is a professor, former director of the MIT Media Lab, and founder of the nonprofit One Laptop Per Child project. He wants to build the $100 laptop - a sturdy, wireless, Internet-ready, hand-cranked computer and deliver it to millions of children in the developing world.

He believes that:

• Children are our most precious natural resource.
• The solution to poverty, peace, environment is education.
• Teaching is one but not the only way to achieve learning.

Hear Negroponte's 18 minute address to TED 2006 conference attendees.