Assignement 2

Nicholas is founder and chairman of the One Laptop per Child non-profit association. He is currently on leave from MIT, where he was co-founder and director of the MIT Media Laboratory, and the Jerome B. Wiesner Professor of Media Technology. A graduate of MIT, Nicholas was a pioneer in the field of computer-aided design, and has been a member of the MIT faculty since 1966. Conceived in 1980, the Media Laboratory opened its doors in 1985. He is also author of the 1995 best seller, Being Digital, which has been translated into more than 40 languages. In the private sector, Nicholas serves on the board of directors for Motorola, Inc. and as general partner in a venture capital firm specializing in digital technologies for information and entertainment. He has provided start-up funds for more than 40 companies, including Wired magazine. (http://web.media.mit.edu/~nicholas/)

In 2007, James Urquhart wrote an article where he exposed the vision of Nicholas Negroponte for his project OLPC. Negroponte's initiative will have a great impact on the reduction of the digital divide between the countries of the center and those of the periphery but also between the core and the periphery of the same country as it will allow for a more equal use of and access to technologies and information.

The concept may be very simple but the outcome is tremendous as the project will help eradicate poverty by increasing the level of education in those countries or areas which will implicate a decrease of unemployement rate.

Morocco is in need of such a program as it finds itself at the periphery in terms of education and access to infromation which are the tools to developement.