Description/Abstract: I came into making the OLPC piece knowing there wasn't too much I wanted to say. Plenty has already been said about the project, both positive and critical -- in the former category, extensive news coverage, design accolades, and a sense that this could significantly reduce the digital divide between first and third world countries; in the latter, that the project is "top down" and laptops are not really what poor communities need, that it is not proceeding based on research on how kids in these communities might use computers, and that it stands to generate a great deal of hazardous waste. (The OLPC project is unusual from a PR standpoint for featuring both positive and negative coverage on its press page.) I knew I wasn't going to have time to really do research and add to what has already been said, so I kept the scope small... - Gus Andrews, Assoc. Producer