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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 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 ...
- One Laptop Per Child--Version 2.0
Forbes, NY - May 21, 2008
On Tuesday, Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) program, announced the next generation of the XO, the $188 pint-sized PC ...
- Microsoft officially teams up with OLPC
ZDNet UK, UK - May 16, 2008
"We view it as a major opportunity for OLPC to expand and expand in a couple of ways," OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte told ZDNet.co.uk's sister site, ...
- 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 ...
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