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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 2007. OLPC laptops can be ordered via Amazon, starting November 17, 2008. You can have a look at Sugar, the machine's user interface, here.

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Picture of the Green OLPC XO
News

  • Sugar interface, no OLPC necessary
    ZDNet Asia OR - Jun 26, 2009
    The OLPC (one laptop per child) XO-1 interface is now available on a USB stick. Sugar Labs, responsible for building the low-cost ...

  • India has ordered 250000 laptops from OLPC
    The Industry Standard OR - Apr 24, 2009
    India has ordered 250000 laptops from the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) organization, while a human rights organization will supply 5000 OLPC machines to ...

  • OLPC Goes Open Source
    Digitaltrends.com, OR - Jan 10, 2009
    One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) famously aimed to create the $100 laptop and make it available to schoolchildren throughout the world. ...

  • XO laptop launches in Europe
    PC Pro, UK - Nov 12, 2008
    "To anticipate them costing $20 each is not out of the question," said Nicholas Negroponte, the OLPC's chairman. However, the first XO laptop was hit by ...

  • Colombia Signs up for OLPC Laptops With Windows
    PC World - Nov 10, 2008
    Colombia will become the second country to use the One Laptop Per Child Project's (OLPC) XO laptops running Microsoft Windows XP in schools after signing an ...

  • OLPC to Sell Its Low-Cost Notebooks Via Amazon
    PC Magazine - Sep 5, 2008
    by Brian Heater When OLPC designed its low-priced, low-watt, neon-green XO laptop, the company never intended to make it commercially available to consumers ...

  • Why Microsoft and Intel tried to kill the XO $100 laptop
    Times Online, UK - Aug 10, 2008
    Nicholas Negroponte had a vision: to build a $100 laptop and give away millions to educate the world’s poorest children. And then the fat-cat multinationals got scared and broke it ...

  • Windows XP for XO hits RTM milestone
    Ars Technica, MA - Jul 29, 2008
    By Emil Protalinski | Published: July 29, 2008 - 10:23AM CT In mid-May, the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project announced that Microsoft's Windows XP ...

  • Ethiopia: OLPC donates 5000 laptops worth 940000 USD
    Sudan Tribune, Sudan - Jun 27, 2008
    By Tesfa-alem Tekle June 27, 2008 (ADDIS ABABA) — One laptop per child(OLPC)project and the city of Florence, Italy donate 5000 personal computers to ...

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