Comment on Nicholas Negroponte perspective of the $100 laptop

Every new idea is generally received with apprehension. With the article in hand, this view is all the more inforced. When Nicholas Negroponte came up with his geneous idea of the computer accessible to all, he received little support from the computer industry geants. This man is a pioner in the information technology sector. He introduced different concept at a time when nobody would have believed that his ideas and innovations would be realized and even successful. As cited in the article, he introduced the idea of the wireless technology before a mobile phone could even be produced.

Starting last decade, the world influencial organizations led by the most educated people knew that information technologies will be The Tool to help every single country in the world to emerge socially and economically. Then the basis for developping countries to evolve at both the social and the economic level in a sustained manner is to develop a solid information technology network that would be accessible to all the population including the poorest.

Once thsi idea was accepted, Negroponte succeeded in gathering the help and collaboration of the industry geants. The aim of this innovation -the $100 laptop- is to make the computer with all its features related to it available and affordable to all social classes. A focus is made on the fact that it would become an educational tool so that the next generation would all become literate. Behind this strategy is to decrease if not completely eliminate the digital divide concept. To be more precise, digital divide refers to the segment of people that is excluded from the information technology accessibilities as well as those that do not have the ability or knowledge to use the information once accessible.

If we were to see the impact of that project on the Moroccan and Arab world, we would realize that if we all have access to that innovation, we will reach a level of access to information technology and hence having a solid basis for building our economic development in the long run.