From Brazil to Pakistan, some of the world’s poorest children will peer across the digital divide this month–reading electronic books, shooting digital video, creating music and chatting with classmates online. Founded by Massachusetts Institute of Technology academics, the non-profit “One Laptop per Child” project will roll out nearly 2,500 of its $150-laptops to eight nations in February. The experiment is a prelude to mass production of the kid-friendly, lime-green-and-white laptops scheduled to begin in July, when five million will be built.