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Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States, plan to provide laptops costing just US$100 to 100-200 million schoolchildren in the developing world by 2006.
But bridging the digital divide between rich and poor countries is not just about making a cheap product, it is also about making it usable in areas that have unstable electricity supplies, poor transport systems, and few trained computer technicians.