Intel Pulls Funding From $100 Laptop

Intel has recently pulled its funding from the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project that provides cheap and durable computers, known as "$100 laptops," to children in the developing world.  Intel claims that OLPC pushed the company to back only OLPC computers and to remove support from other models, including Intel’s own Classmate computer.  OLPC has not commented on the split, but before partnering with Intel, had charged the company with selling its Classmate computer at a loss in an attempt to undermine the OLPC project, which at the time was working with Intel rival AMD.  Given the growing global role of corporations, garnering corporate support is necessary to achieve affordable, positive change in areas like technology diffusion.  To read about how the OLPC program is operating in a Nigerian school, click here.