Nicholas Negroponte Audio & Video

In this talk, Negroponte discusses the three modern changes that have defined the telecommunications industry-digitization, the development of packets, and the move to wireless-and ponders "what's next" for the industry that represents 5% of the world GDP.

Imagine a world where all school-age children own a laptop computer, even those living in villages lacking power and telephone service. Nicholas Negroponte has, and his One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) non-profit has propelled this vision into the real world.

Calestous Juma hosts a talk with Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the One Laptop Per Child initiative, and Iqbar Quadir, who connected millions of the rural poor in Bangladesh through Grameenphone cellphones and now supports MIT students whose start-ups will have a positive impact on developing countries.

Nicholas Negroponte talks about how One Laptop per Child is doing, two years in. Speaking at the EG conference while the first XO laptops roll off the production line, he recaps the controversies and recommits to the goals of this far-reaching project.

Nicholas Negroponte talked about his organization, One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), and its efforts to provide one Internet-connected laptop to every school-age child in developing countries.

Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the MIT Media Laboratory, describes how the One Laptop Per Child project will build and distribute the "$100 laptop."