Monday, April 23, 2007

How Bill Gates can save your third world country

This sparked off my mind earlier today.

Bill Gates has a net worth of 56 billion dollars.
He earns $1 million US a month.

refer to the OLPC project
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Laptop_per_Child
To develop a laptop that costs $100 to be sold to third world countries to allow children to use laptops in learning.

Given that Bill Gates can donate 1 billion dollars (less than 2% of his net worth)
he can produce 100 million laptops to be distributed to people in third world countries.
Whats wrong with this picture?

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