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OLPC Mission, Part 1: Principles and Child Empowerment
One Laptop per Child: laptop.org It’s an education project, not a laptop project. Inexpensive, durable, networked laptops are important to better education everywhere in the world, empowering children and communities, and sharing access to modern skills with every child on the planet.
OLPC Mission, Part 2: The XO Laptop, design for learning
Why give a Laptop? See laptop.org and http Substitute the word Laptop, with the word Education, and you have much of the answer. XOs make it possible to collaborate, learn, teach, and publish at no cost. They inspire new forms of learning, and attention to education. And the provide access to digital texts in places too remote to send and update physical books in a cost-effective way.
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OLPC one laptop per child XO prototype at siggraph 2007
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 0 -It is made by a private non-profit company based in Cambridge MA USA -There is no hand-crank, but a variety of …