1. The XO organization reports that the United Nations Development Programme will partner with them to assist governments in distribution and support of the machines as they are made available. See United Nations Development Programme, $100 Laptop Project Moves Closer to Narrowing Digital Divide ( Jan. 28, 2006), http://content .undp.org/go/newsroom/january-2006/100-dollar-laptop-20060128.en?category ID 349425&lang en; OLPC, One Laptop per Child http://wiki.laptop.org/go/ One_Laptop_per_Child.
2. See One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), Progress, http://www.laptop.org/en/vision/ progress/index.shtml; Tim Bloomberg, Quanta to start “One Laptop” Project in Sept., The China Post, May 16, 2007, available at http://www.chinapost.com.tw/news/ archives/business/2007516/109813.htm. The post-launch phase is planned to include Mexico, all of Central America, Ethiopia, Angola, Pakistan, Vietnam, Indonesia, and the Philippines. OLPC, Map, http://www .laptop.org/map.en_US.html.
3. See Assoc. Press, Laptop Detractors Shrugged Off, Wired News, Apr. 4, 2006, http:// www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70584-0.html?tw rss.index.
4. See Constructionism, http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Constructivism. See generally Seymour Papert & Idit Harel, Situating Constructionism, in Constructionism (1991); Sey- mour Papert, Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas (1980). It should be noted that constructivism and constructionism are two distinct concepts— the first was conceived by Jean Piaget and is based on children’s interests and perceptions. The second was conceived by Seymour Papert and has more to do with how children learn. Both concepts are important for experience-based learning, and OLPC itself invokes both ideas.
5. See Posting of Evan Blass to Engadget, Microsoft Will Sell $3 Software to Developing Countries, http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/microsoft-will-sell-3-software-todeveloping- countries/ (Apr. 20, 2007, 11:40), Michael Kannellos, Five Countries to Get Cheap Windows XP, CNet News.com, Aug. 10, 2004, http://news.com.com/ Five countries to get cheap Windows XP/2100-1016_3-5304023.html.
6. OLPC posted a request for content in October 2006. See OLPC Request for Content, OLPC Wiki, http://wiki.laptop.org/index.php?title Request_for_content&oldid 13244 (as of Oct. 3, 2006, 19:14 GMT).
7. See, e.g., Posting of Wayne Hodgins to Off Course-On Target, Opportunities in Our Laps? http://waynehodgins.typepad.com/ontarget/science/ (Apr. 19, 2007, 01:14); Posting of Atanu Dey to Deeshaa, OLPC—Rest in Peace—Part 2, http://www.deeshaa .org/2006/08/04/olpc-rest-in-peace-part-2/ (Aug. 4, 2006).
8. Ryan Singel, High Security for $100 Laptop, Wired, Feb. 7, 2007, http://www.wired .com/news/technology/0,72669-0.html.
9. OLPC Bitfrost, http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Bitfrost (as of Feb. 1, 2007) (“The Bitfrost platform governs system security on the XO laptops. Given that ‘objectionable content’ lacks any kind of technical definition, and is instead a purely social construct, filtering such content lies wholly outside of the scope of the security platform and this document.”); OLPC Code Browser, http://dev.laptop.org/git.do?p security ;a commit ;h HEAD.
10. OLPC Bitfrost, http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Bitfrost (as of Feb. 1, 2007) (“The OLPC project has received very strong requests from certain countries considering joining the program to provide a powerful anti-theft service that would act as a theft deterrent against most thieves . . . the anti-theft daemon will shut down and lock the machine if its cryptographic lease ever expires. In other words, if the country operates with 21-day leases, a normal, non-stolen laptop will get the lease extended by 21 days each day it connects to the Internet. But if the machine does not connect to the Internet for 21 days, it will shut down and lock.”).
11. See Caslon Analytics, http://www.caslon.com.au/volkscomputernote1.htm#morphy (last visited May 22, 2007).
12. Bruce Sterling, The Year in Ideas: A to Z; Simputer, N.Y. Times, Dec. 9, 2001, §6, available at http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/09/magazine/09SIMPUTER.html?ex 1171429200&en 9383e00b97332584&ei 5070.
13. See Jason Overdorf, The $100 Un-PC, Newsweek.com, Feb. 12, 2007, http:// www.newsweek.com/id/42955; Nitya Varadarajan, Cheap, Cheaper, Cheapest, Busi- nessToday, Mar. 26, 2006, available at www.india-today.com/btoday/20060326/features3html. Reports of a $10 PC in the idea phase have also been released recently. Akshaya Mukul, HRD Hopes to Make $10 Laptops a Reality, The Times of India, May 4, 2007, available at http://times ofindia.indiatimes.com/Business/HRD_hopes_to_make _10_laptops_a_reality/article show/1999828.cms.
14. Guerrilla Warfare and the OLPC, OLPC Wiki, http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Guerrilla _Warfare_and_the_OLPC (as of May 22, 2007, 01:34 GMT).
15. Gene Spafford, Re: [IP] $10 Laptops from HRD Ministry, India, IP Listserv (May 6, 2007), http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/2007/05/sort/time_rev/page/ 2/entry/23:91/20070506140410:307417BE-FBFC-11DB-A2B9-C8C92BEBA671/.
16. RFC Editor et al., RFC 2555: 30 Years of RFCs (1999), http://www.ietf.org/rfc/ rfc2555.txt.
17. See, e.g.,Tools, Technology & Solutions, http://www.plagiarism.org.
18.Middlebury College’s History Department banned the use of Wikipedia as a source in early 2007. See A Stand Against Wikipedia, Inside Higher Ed., Jan. 26, 2007, http:// insidehighered.com/news/2007/01/26/wiki; Noam Cohen, A History Department Bans Citing Wikipedia as a Research Source, N.Y. Times, Feb. 21, 2007, at B8, available at http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/21/education/21wikipedia.html. Other schools are frowning upon Wikipedia as a source as well. Matt Reilly, Source of the Problem, The Daily Orange, Apr. 2, 2007, available at http://www.dailyorange.com/home/index .cfm?event displayArticle&ustory_id fe593637-958b-44e6-9f03-b8cba4264ec6.
19. SAGrader, IdeaWorks, http://www.ideaworks.com/sagrader/index.html (last visited May 22, 2007).
20. InnoCentive Frequently Asked Questions, http://www.innocentive.com/faqs.php (last visited Sept. 30, 2007); Darren J. Carroll, Chief Executive Officer, InnoCentive, Distributed R&D Case Study: Innocentive (Mar. 3, 2005), http://ocw.mit.edu/NR/rdonlyres /Sloan-School-of-Management/15-352Spring-2005/2F3996A5-1852-419E-8EB8- 6C4354266BA2/0/mit_mar07_2005.pdf.
21. InnoCentive Frequently Asked Questions, http://www.innocentive.com/faqs.php (last visited Sept. 30, 2007) (“If your solution is selected as ‘best’ by the Seeker, prior to receiving a financial award you must transfer your intellectual property rights in the solution.”).
22. Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, http://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome (last visited Sept. 30, 2007); see also Posting of Elinor Mills to Tech News Blog, Amazon’s Mechanical Turk Lets You Make $$$, Sort Of, http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9782813-7.html (Sept. 21, 2007, 12:35 PDT).