There’s a really cool initiative going on to provide a one laptop per child at a cost of $100 for every child.

Annan presents prototype $100 laptop at World Summit on Information Society - MIT News Office

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan unveiled the first working prototype of the $100 laptop Nov. 16 at the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis, Tunisia. Annan was joined by Nicholas Negroponte, chairman and co-founder of the Media Lab at MIT, in presenting the laptop to the gathering.

The $100 laptop, first announced by Negroponte at the World Economic Forum in January 2005, is an ultra-low-cost, full-featured computer designed to dramatically enhance children’s primary and secondary education worldwide. It is the central project of the nonprofit One Laptop per Child (OLPC) association, which aims to equip the world’s schoolchildren and their teachers with a personal, portable, connected computer.

Whilst $100 doesn’t sound much to us it will be for people in the third world but at least this provides them access to computers and the Internet and that can’t be a bad thing.