What are some of the concerns revolving this development?

The USD$100 Laptop is also known as the Cheap Laptop that is aimed to be distributed to children in developing countries under the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project spearheaded by Nicholas Negroponte.
The scheme is designed to help children in developing countries to gain access to computers and IT, connecting themselves to the world.
The laptops were dished out to schoolchildren after Libya signed a deal to the project, purchasing 1.2 million of the cheap Linux laptops, bringing it to reality during the summer of 2007.
The OLPC project is backed by Intel's rival AMD, as well as Google, Nortel and Red Hat.

Since the laptops are given to the children in the developing world for free education, people are concerned that these children might abuse the usage of the PC. Instead of using it for education, it might be used for negative influence such as pornography and violence.
Besides, people living in the rural areas tend to be very rigid and tradition about their lifestyles, hence not wanting to accept the change of technology in their lives.
Although the PC is aimed to provide the children with new opportunities to explore, experiment and express themselves, the public is concerned that the PC might not ever reach them as some countries have refused to sign up for the programme.
One of the countries that passed the project is India, claiming the idea not being "mature" enough as what these people really need is classrooms and teachers more urgently than "fancy tools".
Besides, English is an essential component of the OLPC project in order to give the children the possibility of higher education. However, in rural areas of the developing world, many of the children speak of their native tongues and thus not being able to comprehend English, resulting them being deterred from the access of the PC. This is such in India.
Another problem that the public is concerned is that the PC, being used for an educational device that is to be used in schools, would not be in use when the school does not have any connectivity. This defeats the purpose of the project for no connectivity means there is no information sharing with the lack of resources.

By:
Goh Tian Ying
Jacqueline Quek (Leader)
Kwok Yeok Fei
Tay Li Jing
Matthew Tan