No stranger to Taiwan, Negroponte revealed his belief that technology should serve everybody when he announced his "One Laptop Per Child" idea in a speech given at the Industrial Research Technology Institute in late November 2005.
曾多次來台的尼葛洛龐帝，2005 年 11 月底在工研院發表「一個孩子，一部電腦」演說，展現科技為人性服務的深度關懷。