At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 2005, Nicholas Negroponte unveiled the idea of One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), a $100 PC that would transform education for the world’s disadvantaged schoolchildren by giving them the means to teach themselves and each other. He estimated that up to 150 million of these laptops could be shipped annually by the end of 2007. 4 With $20 million in startup investment, sponsorships and partnerships with major IT industry players, and interest from developing countries, the nonproft OLPC project generated excitement among international leaders and the world media. Yet as of June 2009 only a few hundred thousand laptops have been distributed (they were frst available in 2007), and OLPC has been forced to dramatically scale back its ambitions.