One Laptop Per Child–Ready Now!!
November 10, 2007 — lennyesq
One Laptop Per Child intends to provide a means for learning, self-expression and exploration to the nearly two billion children of the developing world with little or no access to education. While children are by nature eager for knowledge, many countries have insufficient resources to devote to education—
sometimes less than $20 a year per child. Imagine the potential that could be unlocked by giving every child in the world the tools they need to learn, no matter who they are, no matter where they live, no matter how little they may have.
If you’d like to donate an XO laptop today, click here. A donation of $200 will pay for and deliver one XO laptop to a child in a developing nation, $400 will pay for and deliver two XO laptops, and so on.
Starting November 12, One Laptop Per Child (”OLPC”) will be offering a Give 1 Get 1 Program for a brief window of time in North America. For $399, you will be purchasing two XO laptops—
one that will be sent to empower a child to learn in a developing nation, and one that will be sent to your child at home.
OLPC was founded and is chaired by Nicholas Negroponte of MIT Media Lab fame.
As one might expect, the computer that Negroponte and his fellow Media Lab faculty have developed is like no other computer. The XO laptop is a computer built for learning and designed specifically with children in mind. Because of this, the features deemed most valuable for its purposes are as good (and in many cases, better) than comparable features on a $1000 laptop. For instance, the XO’s screen can be viewed as clearly as a newspaper in broad daylight, and the wireless range of the XO is several times longer than your average laptop. It’s also more rugged, resilient and power efficient than most other laptops on the market. While other features, such as power and speed, cannot compare to a $1000 machine, they are excellent for the XO’s $200 price point and meet the necessary requirements for learning. The XO’
s operating system is based on a free and open source version of Linux.
