[ticking] it was in this remote cambodian village that Nicholas Negroponte came up with his idea to give a laptop computer to every child in the world. The first english word of every child in that village was google. [laughs] the village has no electricity, no telephone, no television. [childs voice] and the children take laptops home that are connected, broadband, to the internet. And that was just the beginning. The one laptop per child computer is a computing revolution. [ticking] [sprightly music] the National Youth orchestra is so much in demand, its on the road more than most professional orchestras. Its been hailed as the future of Classical Music itself. And its all about children, about saving them, hundreds of thousands of children, through music. Honk [orchestral music] consider the life of Jose Gregorio hernandez. [dramatic conclusion] his blindness didnt stop the orchestra from letting him be as much a part of it as any other kid. [whistles and applause] you can see the result for yourselfmagical. [ticking] youve probably never seen anything as adorable as a fivedayold elephant. But this story is more about her mother. Her name is mpenzi. She is the large lady lending a helping trunk. Mpenzi didnt grow up in the wild. She was an orphan and was raised here, at an orphanage for elephants in kenya. These kids have all lost a parent to poachers, mainly. And here theyre cared for by the gentlest men youve ever met. Not only do they spend all day with their elephants; when its sleep time, they bed down right next to them. Welcome to 60 minutes on cnbc. Im bob simon. In this edition, we visit with a trio seeking to make a difference by offering a helping hand to those in need. We begin with Nicholas Negroponte, a professor at mit. Hes the founder of a Nonprofit Organization called one laptop per child. His vision is for every child to have a laptop computer, and with it, the possibility of a better future. He recruited a cadre of engineers and programmers who created the lowcost xo laptop. It costs less than 200 and is designed to be used in some of the most impoverished places on the planet. As lesley stahl reported in may 2007, negropontes dream was ambitious. To understand it better, lets go back to where that dream was born cambodia. The idea came to him in a remote village called reaksmy, a fourhour drive on a dirt road from the nearest town. Its as far from mit as you can get. They dont even have running water. [bell being struck] stand by. Negroponte and his family founded a school here in 1999, putting in a satellite dish and generators. [generator whirring] then they gave the children laptops. Instantly, school became a lot more popular. Hows the way that its sunny kids who had never seen a computer before were now crossing the digital divide. Its sunny today Nicholas Negroponte was knocked out. The first english word of every child in that village was google. [laughs] the village has no electricity, no telephone, no television. [dog barking] and the children take laptops home that are connected, broadband, to the internet. [childs voice] when they take the laptops home, the kids often teach the whole family how to use it. [laughter] families loved it cause it was the brightest light source in the house. cause they had no electricity. Talk about a metaphor and reality simultaneously. It just illuminated that household. We have to go to study computer now. Yes . [children] yes good. Once the computers were there, School Attendance went way up. This year, for example, 50 more children showed up for first grade. In cambodia . Yeah, because the kids who were in first grade last year told the other kids, you know, school is pretty cool. Negroponte wanted this for all children everywhere. But he realized conventional computers were too expensive, and so his dream was born. And this is it a lowbudget computer for children. [speaking portuguese ] children like these secondgraders in a poor school in sao paulo, brazil. Each child has been given his or her own machine as part of a test for the brazilian government to see if they should buy them for all their schoolchildren. This must be pretty exciting for you, to see these children. Its very exciting. Its very gratifying. Its been two years in the making. The children seem to especially like the builtin camera that takes stills and video. Shes taking a picture of us taking a picture of her. Right. It also has wifi. Shes on the web . Yeah, she seems to be on the web. Negropontes idea was that kids dont need teachers to learn the computer. They can pick it up by experimenting on their own, or, as in this case, with help from a friend. That is what were doing, is that that kid is showing this kid. That is key. They get it instantly. It takes a tenyearold child about three minutes. And youre talking about children whove never worked on a computer . Children whove never, in some cases, seen electricity. You go into countries where there may not be enough food, where the children may not have good enough education to even teach them to read. Why a laptop . It almost sounds like a luxury for these people who need so much more than that. Let me take two countries, pakistan and nigeria. 50 of the children in both of those countries are not in school. At all. At all. They have no schools; they dont even have trees under which a teacher might stand. Youre saying, give them a laptop even if they dont go to school . Especially if they dont go to school. Oh, my. If they dont go to school, this is school in a box. Negroponte took a leave of absence from mit and has done little else but work on this ever since. So, Nicholas Negroponte. Yes. Whats in it for you . Nothing. Absolutely nothing. He says its purely humanitarian and nonprofit. With startup money from google and other big companies, he assembled a team of engineers and programmers to come up with something that would stand up to third world conditions. You can pour water on the keyboard. You can dip it intoyou know, you can dip the base into a bathtub. You can carry it in the rain. Its more robust than your normal laptop. It doesnt even have holes in the side, if you look at it. You know, dirt, sandi mean, theres no place for it to go into the machine. Again, designed for the child. Yes. It looks like a toy on purpose. But its a serious computer with many innovations. For instance, its the first laptop with a screen you can use outdoors in full sunlight. Walter bender, the president of software on the project, says there are loads of new features. You can draw on it. Use a pen. Or compose music. [music playing] it actually looks like an animal. These are meant to look like ears, right . Right, these ears are the way in which the laptop communicates to the rest of the world. So the laptop listens with these earsthose are the radio antennas. I dont have that on my computer. No, and one of the reasons why this computer has probably two or three times better wifi range than your computer is because you dont have that. How long does the battery work . By the time were done with all our tuning, the battery should last 10, 12 hours. Really . With heavy use. If the battery does run out, and you live in a thatch hut in the middle of nowhere, you can charge it up with a crank or a salad spinner. So you do this for about a minute or two. Give it a minute or two, and you get ten or 20 minutes of reading. [ticking] coming up the high stakes rivalry of lowcost computers. Craig barrett is intels chairman of the board. Negroponte believes that youre trying to drive him out. Were not trying to drive him out of business. Were trying to bring capability to young people. 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You can pour a glass of water on it, and it wont break. Yes. Its waterproof. I cant wait to type outside with a computer for hours without worrying about dust or heat. So the one laptop per child technology is cutting edge. Its clockstopping hot. But he doesnt buy negropontes contention that kids can figure it out without a teacher. If you hand a child a violin or piano, they can make noise with it, right . But will they be able to make music . And if you give a child a computer, theyll be able to operate the computer, but will they really be able to learn without having a teacher, whether its formal or informal, to help them along that learning path . He says there are other problems. For poor countries like cambodia, there are costs beyond the price of the computer, like satellites to connect to the internet. And what about theft . What says an older kid isnt just gonna swipe this thing . Seems like its inevitable. Weve spent a lot of time on security. If this is stolen from a child, within 24 hours, it stops working. So everybodys testing Different Computers up here. Yeah. But one laptop has had to contend with a new challenge competition. This lab in sao paulo is testing two other laptops the brazilian government is thinking of buying for schoolchildren, including one made in india and negropontes biggest competitor, the classmate, by the giant chipmaker intel. What do you think of this one . Its just like a small laptop, miniature laptop. So its purely humanitarian. You did it only to help the poor kids around the world. Why did other companies, forprofit companies, decide they wanted a piece of this action . Because the numbers are so large, they look at the numbers, and they say, if were not in those, were toast. Here in brazil, there are 55 million schoolchildren, most of them poor. Many live in favelas like this one. In china, there are 200 million. Worldwide, Nicholas Negroponte says, the potential number of kids who could get his laptop is over a billion, a fact that has not gone unnoticed by intel and other high tech companies. Intel gave every student in this class in mexico a classmate, which negroponte believes is part of an effort to kill him off. Its predatory. At a lecture at mit, he accused intel of dumping, of going to the same governments hes trying to sell to and offering the classmate below cost. Intel should be ashamed of itself. Its justits just shameless. Craig barrett is intels chairman of the board. Negroponte believes that youre trying to drive him out. Were not trying to drive him out of business. Were trying to bring capability to young people. And its more than just intel. Its gonna take the whole industry to do this. Barrett flies around the world bringing computers to schools and places like malinalco, mexico. Do you like the computers . ¿les gustan Las Computadoras . All si. He says that like negroponte, intel just wants to help kids get affordable computers, and that they would be willing to reach an accommodation with one laptop. There are lots of opportunities for us to work together. Thats why, when you say this is competition, and were trying to drive him out of business, this is crazy. Not to negroponte, who says the rivalry goes back to when he first introduced the one laptop and barrett dismissed it as a gadget. For Nicholas Negroponte, its not just business. Its personal. Its about his dream, his baby. Has intel hurt you and the mission . Yes, intel has hurt the mission enormously. He thought hed have millions of orders, but countries that had once promised to buy in bulk havent. And so negroponte spends almost all his time lobbying government officials to buy the laptops. I heard that you travel more than 300 days a year. Yes, its true, sadly. There are only 365 days a year. I actually travel about 330 of them. He says hes confident his mission will succeed, even though hes about to face even more competition, as other companies are working on lowcost laptops. But that will result in more kids getting computers, which is, after all, what negroponte said he wanted in the first place. You know, you call your project one laptop per child. And you mean that every kid in the entire world is going to have a laptop. Yes. Is that realistic . If i was realistic, i wouldnt have started this project, okay . Okay. So its not realistic. Its the dream. But well get close. Since our first report aired in 2007, both the xo laptop and the intel classmate have received upgrades and are used by children at home and in classrooms across the globe. Nicholas negroponte continues his one laptop per child mission. Craig barrett retired as intels chairman in may, 2009. [ticking] [dramatic orchestral music] coming up, venezuelas unique Music Program. 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Its also the home of a Music Program thats so extraordinary, its been hailed as the future of Classical Music itself. Its called el sistema, the system. And as we reported in april 2008, its all about children, about saving them, hundreds of thousands of children, through music. [dramatic orchestral music] in the world of Classical Music, the Simon BolivarNational Youth orchestra is unique. [jazzy music] the musicians, kids mainly, are not graduates of some conservatory or music school. Theyre alumni of the school of hard knocks in the slums of venezuela. The orchestra performs around the world with Gustavo Dudamel, its celebrated young conductor. Performing in the grand and opulent concert halls of europe is a long way from the orchestras home in venezuela. Many of the kids come from neighborhoods which are so poor, desperate, and crimeridden, that hope is often extinguished in children at an early age. Instead, these kids travel the world playing to sellout audiences. The National Youth orchestra and hundreds of others are the brainchild of dr. Jose antonio abreu, who started the first one back in 1975. Do you remember the night you first started . Teniamos once muchachos. We only had 11 children rehearsing in cramped conditions. But i had the feeling this was the beginning of something very big. Dr. Breu, a retired economist, trained musician, and social reformer, founded the system and has built it with religious zeal, based on his unorthodox belief that what poor venezuelan kids needed was Classical Music. At its root, this is a social system that fights poverty. A childs physical poverty is overcome by the spiritual richness that comes from music. So music actually becomes the vehicle for social change . Without a doubt. And thats whats happening in venezuela. It happens in neighborhoods like this one on the outskirts of caracas. Every afternoon, small children line up for free Music Lessons at a local branch of the system. Raphael elster runs one. How old are they when you first get them . Kindergarten, like two years old. Two years old. Yeah. Learning music. Twoyearolds start learning the basics rhythm, and the language of music. By the time theyre four, theyre being taught how to play an instrument. By the time theyre six or