Maine Laptop Program Serves as Positive Model for Global Education Initiative
The Maine Learning Technology Initiative (MLTI), which provides laptops for seventh- and eighth-grade students and their teachers, has inspired the One Laptop per Child program, a global initiative to supply free laptops to children in developing countries all over the world.
“It is important that we provide students with a level of education that enables them to compete and succeed in a global economy,” said Governor John Baldacci. “Giving children ready access to computer technology is an innovative way to help them thrive in school.”
Nicholas Negroponte, Wiesner Professor of Media Technology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and founding chairman of MIT’s Media Laboratory, is the driving force behind the One Laptop per Child program. He presented his global laptop initiative to technology industry leaders at the Pop!Tech conference in Camden in October 2005, which became the focus of a November 2005 Fortune article.
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