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One Laptop Per Child is a Non-profit Organization set up to oversee the $100 Laptop project. Both the project and the organization were announced at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in January 2005 . One Laptop Per Child is being funded by a number of sponsor organizations. These include Google , Red Hat , AMD , Brightstar , News Corporation and Nortel Networks . Each company has donated two million dollars. The MIT Media Lab is also involved in the project. One Laptop Per Child gained its most attention after Nicholas Negroponte and Kofi Annan unveiled a working prototype of the $100 laptop at the World Summit On The Information Society in Tunis , Tunisia . One Laptop Per Child is chaired by Nicholas Negroponte and its CTO is Mary Lou Jepsen . Other principals of the company include former MIT Media Lab director Walter Bender who is President of OLPC Software and Content and Jim Gettys who is Vice-President of Software Engineering. OLPC Principals and Staff List Retrieved February 13, 2006 SEE ALSO NOTES AND REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS
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