There is a project from MIT which giving out US$100 notebook to poor country to fillful the goal: Every child have a notebook

http://laptop.media.mit.edu/

After a while, Microsoft propose a similar plan which provide smartphone free to poor: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/30/technology/30gates.html?ex=1296277200&en=4e586bd7c9a4b218&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

Eventually someone start a blog to disucss both project, see if you interested to take a look: http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/1008780.html