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Educational Facilities in Developing Countries
As of 2005,more than 100million children in developing countries do not have access to proper educational facilities.
There are several reasons for this. One reason is the inadequate budgetary provision for education in these countries.
According toUNESCO , developing countries spend 3.4%- 5.7%of their gross national income on education. Countries
in Central and Eastern Europe on the other hand earmark up to 8%. This resulted in the lack of proper facilities like
adequate classrooms, teachingmaterial and textbooks. In addition to this,most of the rural regions in developing countries
do not have a proper school network...
A New Dimension of Public-Private Partnership?
The program generated the interest ofmany companies likeGoogle and chipmakerAdvancedMicro Devices (AMD),
who contributed $2 million to the project. Brightstar, a leader in wireless distribution and supply chainmanagement, also
joined the programto provide logistics and supply chain expertise for the program. NewsCorp, an internationalmedia and
entertainment company brought in global satellite capabilities for the program.As Negroponte had decided to use Linux
operating systemfor the laptop,Red Hat, the company specializing in Linux software, also joined the program.Chairman of
Dell Inc, Michael Dell, had also asked his component buyers to provide Negroponte with all the parts he needed for
manufacturing the laptop at the lowest possible price...
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