There's virtually no coverage of this in the English press outside of one article in today's Computing Canada print edition, but there is a robot translation of http://cf.news.yahoo.com/020828/1/7t71.html that gives the gist of the pitch given by the new head of the World Computer Congress chair on Youth Programs. From the CC article:

"We need to take the technology to its barest elements in terms of access to the Internet and give people within developing regions the tools to make it their own and to stay away from the idea that it has to be in English, it has to be on Microsoft, it has to be this big structure. ... That's not always coming through right now."
 -- Justin Trudeau, WCC 2002

And if that sounds like free-software net-savvy l33t-think to you, check out Justin's smart-take on kids 'n' Napster (among other things)