One Laptop per Child Adds New Board Member

Jorge G. Castaneda to Help OLPC Mobilize for Next Phase of the
Humanitarian Project
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(Business Wire)--
One Laptop per Child, a non-profit organization focused on
providing educational tools to help children in developing countries
"learn learning," announced today the appointment to its Board of
Directors of Jorge G. Castaneda, former Secretary of Foreign Affairs
of Mexico.

"After a momentous 2007 in which we began mass production and
funded the delivery of more than 100,000 XO laptops to some of the
world's poorest nations, OLPC is restructuring in order to provide
access to modern learning to a much greater number of children
worldwide," said Nicholas Negroponte, founder and chairman of One
Laptop per Child. "Jorge Castaneda's extensive international expertise
will be invaluable in helping OLPC fulfill its mission. We are
delighted that he has accepted our invitation to join the Board."

According to Jorge G. Castaneda, "It is a great honor for me to
contribute to this extraordinary initiative led by Nicolas Negroponte
and to support the cause of children's education in Mexico and Latin
America."

Jorge G. Castaneda was Foreign Minister of Mexico from 2000 to
2003. He is a renowned public intellectual, political scientist, and
prolific writer. Dr. Castaneda received a B.A. from Princeton
University and a B.A. from Universite de Paris-I (Pantheon-Sorbonne),
an M.A. from the Ecole Pratique de Hautes Etudes, and his Ph.D. in
Economic History from the University of Paris-I. He taught at Mexico's
National Autonomous University (UNAM) from 1978 through 2004, at
Princeton University, the University of California, Berkeley, and
(since 1997) at New York University.

Dr. Castaneda was a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace (1985-87) and was a John D. and Catherine T.
MacArthur Foundation Research and Writing Grant Recipient (1989-1991).
He is a regular columnist for the Mexican daily Reforma, the Spanish
daily El Pais and Newsweek International. In 1997 he was appointed
Global Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Latin American
Studies at New York University. He has been a Member of the Board of
Human Rights Watch since 2003.

About One Laptop per Child

One Laptop per Child (OLPC at http://www.laptop.org) is a
non-profit organization created by Nicholas Negroponte and others from
the MIT Media Lab to design, manufacture and distribute laptop
computers that are sufficiently inexpensive to provide every child in
the world access to knowledge and modern forms of education. These XO
laptops are rugged, open source, and so energy efficient that they can
be powered by a child manually. Mesh networking gives many machines
Internet access from one connection. The pricing goal is $100.

For One Laptop per Child
Racepoint Group
Jackie Lustig, 781-487-4664
press@racepointgroup.com

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