Somewhat unrelated, but I help to run an organization that is generally unhappy about the raving media attention OLPC gets repeatedly. While OLPCs cost many hun

Somewhat unrelated, but I help to run an organization that is generally unhappy about the raving media attention OLPC gets repeatedly. While OLPCs cost many hundreds of dollars (not counting the high volume of volunteer hours/dollars), we ship computers all around the world at a cost of usually around $100/computer. Plus - from a sustainability perspective, our group is leaps and bounds ahead - instead of 3 year-old computers being sent to china to be 'recycled' (which results in significant waste) they are used and reused by very careful and grateful users in Africa, the middle east, and other parts of the developing world. http://rso.cornell.edu/ccra/ http://rso.cornell.edu/ccra/ - Check out our website. We're an undergraduate-run org and to our knowledge are the largest organization of our type in the nation. Our efforts to get programs started at other schools have been underwhelming.