The “Give One Get One” (G1G1) campaign, launched by Nicholas Negroponte in 2005, is expected to start on Monday, being aimed to help the poorest children all over the world to have access to a computer, thus introducing them into the digital era and enhance their hopes for education and a hope for their future.

The campaign consists in the fact that for every laptop donated for a child, the donor receives one himself. Also, Telecom firm T-Mobile USA is granting a year of free access to its almost 8,500 wireless Internet hotspots in the United States to anyone that would take part in the campaign.

When the US nonprofit organization, One Laptop Per Child, initiated the idea, the laptops were said to cost 100 dollars, but the price almost doubled since then.

The low-cost computers are being produced in China, at a Quanta Computer facility in Changshu, being reported as the most advanced and the greenest laptop designed specially for children, in order to boost their desire to learn.

The laptops use less than a tenth of the power than usual laptops and have solar or hand-crank charging options, as their operating system are based on a free open source software.

One of the problems that the organization has encountered was the fact that the governments of the developing countries aimed by the program did not help or give any signs that they would want to cooperate or buy any laptops for their children. That is why the G1G1 program makes a call to the people in the prosperous countries to help the campaign.

The first XO laptops will be sent to Uruguay, as Negroponte makes one step ahead in reaching his promise to help as many children in the world to have a computer as he and his organization can.

In support of the program, the largest video game maker in the world, Electronic Arts, has declared that it would provide every laptop of the One Laptop Per Child with a free original “SimCity”, which is one of the most appreciated games at the moment.

Also, the laptops aim to be more attractive to kids, as they are designed for rugged environments, have built in video and still cameras. The XOs also have wireless Internet connectivity.

The organization plans to send laptops in Uruguay, Peru, Mexico, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Haiti, Cambodia and India by the end of this year.