OLPC on hunt for chief exec
Published: 07 Mar 2008 11:41 GMT
The founder of One Laptop per Child, Nicholas Negroponte, is looking for a chief executive for the organisation, according to BusinessWeek.
Negroponte told the magazine that he wants someone to help manage the organisation in a way that is "more like Microsoft". He said that One Laptop per Child (OLPC) has in the past been managed like a "terrorist group, doing impossible things".
"I am not a chief executive," Negroponte said in an interview with the magazine. "Management, administration and details are my weaknesses. I'm much better at the vision — [the] big-picture side — of the house."
Negroponte has hired a headhunter to help find a chief executive and hopes to have one confirmed by April or May. OLPC aims to provide low-cost laptops to children in developing countries.
The group has faced challenges in the three years since it was formed. The price of its XO laptops, initially anticipated to cost $100 (£50) each, has spiralled; some countries are scaling back their deployment plans; and Intel recently left the project, claiming that OLPC was pressuring it not to compete with its own laptops.
Credit: Negroponte's OLPC seeks CEO from CNET News
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