It is critically important to adequately educate all the children of the emerging world. Simply doing more of the same is no longer enough, if it ever was. If their citizens are to benefit, as they should from the spread of the technology-based, global information economy, these nations must rethink the old top-down classroom paradigm, and replace it with a dynamic model that leverages the children themselves, turning them into “teachers” as well as “learners.”

The tool with which to unlock their enormous potential is the XO. Put this ultra-low-cost, powerful, rugged and versatile Laplet in their hands, and the kids will do the rest.