Laptops for the world's children

I'm floored! I can hardly believe that this is being done by a nonprofit company! Perhaps this is part of my concern, who funds a project such as this, and why? The XO laptop computer is considered to be the prototype for a project that would have the world's children, poor included, up and running with their own laptops. The lack of knowledge on my end makes it hard for me to come to any definitive opinion, other than to say that I understand, quite simply, that education is the ladder upward and out of poverty for terribly impoverished nations. When you think of the computer as fair education- rather, the medium for fair education to the worlds' poor, it begins to make sense. The infrastructure necessary to get this up and running on a worldwide scale is of an unthinkable magnitude; my better instincts see red flags and holes in the thinking. How do you secure these devices for children who may be in danger for simply possessing something valuable and out of the scope of most of the adults, for example? And whoever funds this program, I'm guessing, will also be in charge of the curriculum, I assume? A one world curriculum could then be fathomable- a standard, worldwide, education on worldwide terms in today's market. Sounds ok, but who agrees on a worldwide core standard? If these are used with local municipalities allowed to have their own, unique educational rights in tact, I'm wait to see the children of the world flourish under such an idea, otherwise- yikes!