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OLPC David Pogue NY Times

March 31, 2010 by · Leave a Comment 


Video from www.nytimes.com

OLPC one laptop per child XO prototype at siggraph 2007

February 22, 2010 by · Leave a Comment 


matthew hockenberry of creativesynthesis.net demonstrates the one laptop per child’s fourth production prototype of the ‘hundred-dollar laptop’ at siggraph 2007 – video by leonardo bonanni of hyperexperience.com FAQ -Yes, this is the hundred dollar laptop -No, you can’t buy one – they are only sold to governments in minimum orders of one million -It actually costs about $140 -It is made by a private non-profit company based in Cambridge MA USA -There is no hand-crank, but a variety of generators are being prototyped including a foot-pedal and a pull-string

Olpc Mission, Part 1: Principles And Child Empowerment

November 5, 2009 by · Leave a Comment 


One laptop per Child: http://laptop.org

It’s an education project, not a laptop project. Inexpensive, durable, networked laptops are important to better education everywhere in the world, empow…

Kenyan Children Receive Their Olpc Laptops

October 27, 2009 by · Leave a Comment 


Rocketboom’s Humanwire correspondent Ruud Elmendorp reports on the adoption of the XO laptop in Kenya.

For more information visit http://laptop.org/en/

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