One Laptop per Child (OLPC)
Published on 23 Dec 2007 at 1:50 pm.
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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
