One Laptop per child

One Laptop Per Child (or OLPC) , which was set up to develop and market a low-cost – ideally $100 or less – education-focused laptop for the poorest children in the world. The device, called XO, is now in production in Taiwan and in use in a number of countries. Fortune’s David Kirkpatrick spoke Friday with Nicholas Negroponte, founder and chairman of OLPC.

OLPC is not, at heart, a technology program, nor is the XO a product in any conventional sense of the word. OLPC is a non-profit organization providing a means to an end—an end that sees children in even the most remote regions of the globe being given the opportunity to tap into their own potential, to be exposed to a whole world of ideas, and to contribute to a more productive and saner world community.