This is a project initiated Nicholas Negroponte of MIT. It was announced at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in January 2005. The espouses five core principles: (1) child ownership; (2) low ages; (3) saturation; (4) connection; and (5) free and open source.
OLPC is funded by a number of sponsor organizations, including AMD, Brightstar Corporation, eBay, Google, Marvell, News Corporation, SES, Nortel Networks, Red Hat, and most recently Intel. Each company has donated two million dollars.
The goal of theproject is to provide children around the world with new opportunities to explore, experiment, and express themselves. The project is designing a laptop, educational software, manufacturing base, and distribution system to provide children outside of the first-world with otherwise unavailable technological learning opportunities.
according to Nicholas Negroponte he says the project an education project, not a laptop project.
OLPC is funded by a number of sponsor organizations, including AMD, Brightstar Corporation, eBay, Google, Marvell, News Corporation, SES, Nortel Networks, Red Hat, and most recently Intel. Each company has donated two million dollars.
The goal of theproject is to provide children around the world with new opportunities to explore, experiment, and express themselves. The project is designing a laptop, educational software, manufacturing base, and distribution system to provide children outside of the first-world with otherwise unavailable technological learning opportunities.
according to Nicholas Negroponte he says the project an education project, not a laptop project.
Participating countries
The following countries have already “committed” to the project in various ways. However, the commitment is not binding. The laptops will be sold to governments, to be distributed through the ministries of education willing to adopt the policy of “one laptop per child”. The operating system and software will be localized to the languages of the participating countries. As of December 1, 2007, only two countries, Peru and Uruguay, actually purchased the XO laptop.
Argentina, Brazil (not yet, is in study), Cambodia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Greece, Libya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Rwanda, Tunisia, United States of America, Urugua
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