Nortel Pullout Hits Laptop-for-Poor-Nations Program Hard

Published April 15, 2009

While Nortel Networks's financial problems have ruined the retirement plans of many, an innovative initiative that was looked upon as having major potential for helping the world's poorest people has been particularly hard hit.

In January 2005, the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project was unveiled with the goal of providing tough, low-cost, low-power laptops that can connect to the Internet to children...