An Opinion piece in COMPUTERWORLD by Paul Lamb compares the uptake on One Laptop Per Child devices with the massive adoption of mobile phones. The title “One BlackBerry Per Child” summarizes the message:

The folks at One Laptop Per Child deserve a lot of credit for raising awareness around the global digital divide. Their stylish green laptop, along with the accompanying goal of putting 21st-century technology in the hands of children in developing countries, has captured the imaginations of people, companies and governments worldwide.

But the nearly half-million orders received from developing countries thus far for the so-called $100 laptop suggests that this effort to supply the developing world with affordable PCs may be too late.

That’s because the developing world has been swept up in the mobile voice revolution, which has far outpaced the spread of desktop and laptop computers. Global mobile phone users number nearly 3 billion, and 1.3 billion of those users are able to access the Internet using their handheld devices. That compares with roughly 1.1 billion desktop users with Web access worldwide. . . .

An Opinion piece in COMPUTERWORLD by Paul Lamb compares the uptake on One Laptop Per Child devices with the massive adoption of mobile phones. The title “One BlackBerry Per Child” summarizes the message:
The folks at One Laptop Per Child deserve a lot of credit for raising awareness around the global digital divide. Their stylish green [...]