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What is OLPC?
The mission of this non-profit association (One Laptop Per Child) is to develop a low-cost laptop - the "$100 Laptop" - a technology that could revolutionize how we educate the world's children. Their goal is to provide children around the world with new opportunities to explore, experiment, and express themselves.
The first notebook model, the OLPC XO, has started to be rolled out to the first third-world countries in November last year. In the US and Canada, the first OLPC laptops could be ordered via XO Giving until December 31, 2007. You can have a look at Sugar, the machine's user interface, here.
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News
- OLPC Names New President, COO
PC World - May 2, 2008
Kane will provide OLPC the leadership needed to deliver on its commitments to partners and governments, said Nicholas Negroponte in a statement. ...
- Windows works well on One Laptop Per Child machine
Reuters - Apr 23, 2008
Microsoft Corp's Windows software works well on the One Laptop Per Child Foundation's XO Laptop, the group's founder said in an e-mail ...
- OLPC: Eliminating Poverty through Education
Statesman, NY - Apr 10, 2008
According to Negroponte, the aim of OLPC is to eliminate poverty in the developing world through education. He believes that the best way to provide ...
- One laptop per child project launched in Nepal
Economic Times, India - Mar 28, 2008
The Nepal government has provided laptops to 16 fourth standard students at Janagal in Kavre district on an experimental basis ...
- OLPC: Negroponte wants "zero dollar laptop" for children
Heise Online, Germany - Mar 10, 2008
The founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab, and founder and current chairman. of the One Laptop per Child project (OLPC) wants to ...
- Steve Wozniak: $100 laptop deserves a Nobel Prize
Builder AU, Australia - Mar 3, 2008
Wozniak added that he believed OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte deserved international recognition for his work. "I think he deserves a Nobel Peace Prize," ...
- XO Laptops Go Next to Haiti
Washington Post, United States - Feb 16, 2008
The One Laptop Per Child Foundation (OLPC) has teamed up with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to launch a pilot project in Haiti, the first time ...
- Khairat village comes under one-child-one-laptop scheme
Merinews, India - Feb 10, 2008
The OLPC was first unveiled at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Tunisia, where Professor Nicholas Negroponte, director of Media Lab, ...
- OLPC laptops set to hit Australia
ZDNet.com.au, Australia - Feb 5, 2008
Australia is set to get its very own OLPC arm, to deliver XO laptops to schoolchildren across the country. The first hints of the Australian launch surfaced ...
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