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The number of orders of so-called OLPC-laptops for children in developing countries appeared many layer than expects, reports the New York Tim. of. Of three million orders is by long after no talk. The marketing program 'Poison 1 Get 1', in which Americas and Canadians two laptops for four hundred dollars can buy, must the numbers what opkrikken.

As a point by pole comes, gives experiences many head of state not home, as Nicholas Negroponte, chairman of the nun-profitproject On Laptop Per Child. “I have till on certain height the difference underestimate between hands shake with a head of state and a check written out get”, he says against the New of York Tim. “And yes, it is a disappointment been.”

Past July its business M. I. T reported. Media Lab, that it ordered were already three million laptops, but this falls dirty against. Orders of Nigeria and Brazil, ofmillion each, are not realizes. On the other hand Peru 250,000 laptops and its clear appointments buys made with Mexico and Uruguay. And the authorities of Itali buys fifty thousand laptops for distribution in Ethiopi.

Negroponte sees the slow existing order tempo as a temporary problem. He does to give an occupation on Americas and Canadians now the project a stimulus. In it yesterday launched marketing program Poison 1 Get 1 can they two weeks long two laptops buy for 399 dollars. One of the machines goes then to a child in a developing country. The others becomes against Christmas or in the beginning of 2008 at the buyer furnished.

The intentions of this is the train on steam to get, lays Negroponte from at the paper. With help of donaties for instance five thousand laptops would can be divided among twenty developing countries. That countries can test the machines then and go it further with at the blow. “It will many on course can bring”, he means.

Afghanistan and Cambodia
The gedoneerde laptops become provides first of all at Cambodia, Afghanistan, Hati and Rwanda, reports an article on the OLPC-site. Other countries, that stand land on the UN-list of slightest developed, can biedingen do. The Poison 1 Get 1-program lasts but two weeks because OLPC certain tegemoet want to can come at the question. By success, the marketing program is extended possible.

Opposite Reuters said OLPC-spokesman George Rush earlier this month that the first thirty thousand XO-machines against November ready will be.,. Come in the Christmas month besides yet once eighty thousand new specimens by. The laptops are indicated to know sleepiness as 'hundred dollars laptops' only expenses meanwhile almost the double, 188 dollars. The striving is yet the price down always to bring to hundred dollars.