Ana Paula Marra and Érica Santana
Reporters - Agência Brasil

Brasília - The US$ 100 laptop that is a brainchild of the Massachussets Institute of Technology (MIT) may be in Brazilian schools in 2007, says presidential aide, Cezar Alvarez, who is coordinating a work group that is studying the possibility of Brazil enrolling in the MIT project "A Laptop For Every Child."

In June of last year, Nicolas Negroponte of MIT met with president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and presented the project. Negroponte is once again in Brazil this week to meet with the work group. According to Alvarez, "The Brazilian government has plans to buy one million of the US$100 laptops next year."

Translation: Allen Bennett