Hi Beth,
Here's another intersting approach just opened in Bangladesh:
"CIC - starting a revolution in Internet access
http://www.ndiyo.org/news/fultolaThe
first Ndiyo-based Community Information Centre opens in Bangladesh: a
four-screen internet cafe with internet connectivity via a mobile
phone!
As from 17th January 2006 there's a new business venture in Fultola, an
area of Bogra town, in Bangladesh. At first sight, it looks like a
standard Internet cafe - a one-room "commercial unit" which opens onto
a bustling street; four screens each with a keyboard and mouse;
customers browsing the Web and reading email.
But look inside and you find that this "Community Information Centre"
(CIC) is radically different from a typical Internet cafe. For one
thing, there's only one PC, which functions as a server: each of the
other workstations is powered by a small device, not much bigger than a
cigarette packet. For another, there's no wired connection between the
server and the outside world. Yet the Centre is clearly hooked up to
the Net. The customers are browsing the web and sending email."
Hilary

Hi Beth:
Yes, it is interesting to compare the different approaches of MIT (one
size fits all, sell through governments at a minimum order of 1
million), Intel (market-based approaches targeting very specific
markets), Inveneo (develop and test open source software and hardware
computing and communication solutions for underserved areas, and
partner with local entrepreneurs to develop sustainable business
models), and Microsoft (leverage the wide deployment of cellphones, and
add a keyboard and TV or monitor to create a simple
computer/communications system). I'm very curious to see how these
approaches play out.

There's been quite a debate about the $100 laptop in the digital divide community.

http://beth.typepad.com/cambodia4kidsorg/2005/10/100_laptop_repo.html