Children's low cost laptop fund data

General Questions

• What evidence is there that providing every child with a laptop is beneficial?
• What benefit do the children derive from owning/having one?
• Won't the laptops get broken a lot?
• Can we really get laptops that will be useful and fully functional for under $400?
  • In addition to the price of the laptop, what are the other costs?
• How are the teachers going to learn how to use this new tool?
• What infrastructure is required to support every child having a laptop?
• How will purchasing laptops help increase student test scores?

Specific OLPC/XO questions

• Why Linux?
• What specific infrastructure does the XO need?
• Won't the XO get broken a lot?
• How will teachers learn the XO?
• What other costs(non infrastructure and not included with the original hardware costs) should we expect?