[vidarh]

> Instead, as the article makes clear, many poor villages don't even have ready access to clean water.

Not that tired old argument again. Yes, it is true. But lots also do. And lots have cellular broadband, and tons of relatively poor people have access to smartphones. Not all of the third world is the same.

And looking at the OLPC site now, they're up to 2.4 million of the thing. Not quite the numbers they'd hoped for, perhaps, but still 2.4 million children in developing countries who now have access to computing.

There's room for projects trying to address more than one issue, for more than one group of people.