The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) association aims to provide one laptop to every school-age child in the developing countries of the world with the goal of improving education around the world. The program was developed by Nicholas Negroponte who was co-founder and director of the MIT Media Laboratory. His goal was to develop a $100 laptop computer that can endure extreme environmental conditions as well as being useable by people with a multitude of local languages and backgrounds. The result is the XO laptop.
The OLPC Association currently has a special program in the US and Canada called “Get One. Give One.”
For $400 you can donate an XO laptop (with $200 being tax deductable) and get your own XO laptop. This is good for a limited time… 31 Dec 2007. You have one week!!!
After that, you can still donate of course.
Kevin Knuth
Albany NY
Posted under Entrepreneurship, Internet, Inventions, Social Justice, Solutions, Technology
This post was written by drknuth on December 23, 2007
