$100 Laptop

My suggestions for this project.

• Give own staff education about life in the third world
• Ensure that "market forces" affect software (even hardware?) available for the machine
• Invest large amounts in educational software
• Provide ways for local people to create educational software and e-books
  
• Address language barriers. Need efficient and effective localization infastructure; should promote an international language
  
• Create "hi-res" (640x480, 800x600) version of the laptop
• Develop theories about how the laptop could be used to improve economies and quality of life beyond simply having laptops. Use the "teach a man to fish" principle - but need short term benefits also.
  
• Provide better development tools than LOGO for students
  
• Develop a mono version of the .NET Compact Framework for the machine?

Note to self:

• Get involved in the project somehow? I could...
  
• Contact others who look smart and bring them in?
• Help promote the project at companies & educational institutions, and solicit investment?