I posted a little while ago about Nicholas Negroponte of MIT’s plan to produce laptops for $100 each for children in poor countries under his One-Laptop-Per-Child scheme. Today the UN gave important backing to the project, providing financial help to the project alongside existing donors including Google.org.

The debate as to whether this is a useful project continues to rage, but with the number of organisations supporting the initiative rising almost daily, Negroponte’s dream looks set to come to fruition, whoever wins the debate.