Engineering change: One Laptop Per Child Video

Video description: CNET Download.com's Jessica Dolcourt interviewed Khaled Hassounah, a regional director for Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child project. Hassounah, the Mideast/Africa regional head of the project, is one of three technologists profiled in CNET News.com's series "Engineering change." Speaking from CNET's studio, he explains why he hopes to place 2 million laptops into the hands of children in his region.

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