One Laptop Per Child... In Oakland Please!

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One Laptop Per Child seeks to enable children in developing countries to compete on the same technological playing field as those in developed countries. My desire is that OLPC shares their vision with the children of Oakland, Richmond, Philadelphia, Detroit, Watts, etc. as they are victims of similar circumstance. Read/watch their mission below and envision the many children in your community who do not have access to computers. How much of an impact would a decent computer with decent software impact the lives of that ten year old girl on 98th and Macarthur?

Most of the nearly two–billion children in the developing world are inadequately educated, or receive no education at all. One in three does not complete the fifth grade.

The individual and societal consequences of this chronic global crisis are profound. Children are consigned to poverty and isolation—just like their parents—never knowing what the light of learning could mean in their lives. At the same time, their governments struggle to compete in a rapidly evolving, global information economy, hobbled by a vast and increasingly urban underclass that cannot support itself, much less contribute to the commonweal, because it lacks the tools to do so.

The laptops will be sold to governments and issued to children by schools on a basis of "one laptop per child." Discussions are ongoing with many countries and we are in detailed discussions regarding a launch of the program in Brazil, Argentina, Libya, Nigeria, and Thailand. A modest allocation of machines will be used to seed developer communities in a number of other countries in early 2007. A commercial version of the machine will be explored in parallel.

Now, how nicely would a program like this one fit into the scope of your inner-city community?
Bang your monkey here. Find out more about the One Laptop Per Child here.