Yechalal! ...... Awoooooooo .....Yechalal! - Amxambe

This Generation(i mean the new one) needs a lot to cope up with the ever changing technology and world as well....this is one way to address the problem. I'm greatful for this project or Concept. This is cool thing for the kids, they'll start enjoying it then who knows most of them they'll end up like those Computer savvy geeks in US and India. Then Guess what? .....They'll change the history of Country by taking IT to the next level.

The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) initiative is a revolutionary approach to education in developing countries. Providing children with the cheap and robust XO laptop means providing them with a unique opportunity to learn, discover, and express themselves.

This learning tool will change education around the world. Developed in the legendary Media Lab of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), OLPC is now being brought to Ethiopia through ecbp. See this documentary about the first steps of the program in Ethiopia and witness how a vision becomes reality.

Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi has confirmed (last November) his commitment of giving 50,000 laptops to Ethiopia. The importance of the funding is its exemplary nature - it is model for other European countries and the EU itself to follow.

Nicholas Negroponte has recently said in an Interview that a Give 1 Get 1 program for Italians to donate more laptops to Ethiopia was under consideration to be launched very soon. Perhaps the program could even provide a second donated laptop by the Italian government as a donation matching incitement. So for perhaps 300€, Italians will give 1 to Ethiopia, the government will match the donation with another to Ethiopia and 1 laptop will come to the Italian person who donated. The exact way the donations are considered in Italy has not been detailed but this is how I expect it could happen.

For more info on OLPC project go to ecbp.biz site down here:- http://www.ecbp.biz/metanav/media/newspage.html?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=28&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=45&cHash=72e7af4110
Don't forget watchin' the video show on OLPC-Ethiopia.

Yes, yechalal! We can do it!

MOJO, Ethiopia -- This country has some of Africa's most fertile land, with fields of wheat and corn stretching to the horizon. Yet a few years ago, 14 million Ethiopians stood at the brink of starvation, saved only by vast international aid.

Now Ethiopia has hopes of breaking its deadly cycle of famine. Not with a Green Revolution, but with a market revolution.

The means is the Ethiopia Commodity Exchange, which is expected to open next month in the capital, Addis Ababa. The dawn of modern trading here comes 160 years after the Chicago Board of Trade transformed American agriculture ...