Learn, Create, Share: One Laptop Per Child

The laptops will be sold to governments. Minimum order size? One million machines. Then they'll be distributed to schools and issued to children, fulfilling the initiative's namesake and intended ratio: one laptop per child. The United Nations Development Program has committed to assist with the initial distribution.

Ownership is as vital to the distribution plan as the technology itself. Personal ownership means a child will take the laptop home every day and continue their exploration in off-school hours. This method has also proven effective incentive for the children to take the best care of them.

It is critical that the laptops go directly to the children and not third parties, as well. While these machines will be excellent tools in a classroom, the real importance is that the children can access the technology on their own time and have the freedom to set the limits of their own learning.

Manufacture of the laptops will begin when 5 to 10 million have been ordered and paid for in advance. Current target countries include Argentina, Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Nigeria, and Thailand. Other nations, at varying levels of commitment , include Costa Rica, Cambodia, Dominican Republic, and Tunisia. Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney has also submitted a bill to have the state fund distribution of the laptop to every child in the state.