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One Laptop per Child
Formation January 2005
Type Non-profit
Headquarters Cambridge, Massachusetts
Official language
 Multilingual
Chairman
 Nicholas Negroponte
Key people
 Charles Kane, Seymour Papert, Alan Kay
Website www.laptop.org

One Laptop Per Child is an organization founded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It is a non-profit organisation. It wants to make cheap laptops so that children in less rich countries without as much technology can also use a computer to learn. The laptop is called an XO. It has an operating system called sugar based on GNU/Linux. It also can run Windows.

Images for kids

  • Laptop09053

    OLPC XO-1 original design proposal

  • LaptopOLPC b

    OLPC XO-1 laptop in e-book mode

  • Laptop-crank

    A second generation prototype came with a crank that proved unviable.

  • LaptopOLPC a

    OLPC XO-1 laptop

  • Xo3-fuse-4

    XO-3 concept

  • XO-3 Photo10 1

    XO-3 production model

  • One Laptop per Child at Kagugu Primary School, Kigali, Rwanda-19Sept2009

    At a primary school in Kigali, Rwanda in 2009, running Scratch

  • OLE Nepal cover

    OLE Nepal, One Laptop Per Child image from Nepal

  • OLPC-First Shipment of Laptops

    The first of shipment OLPC machines in Cambridge, MA

  • Olpc2 cambodia

    Children in a remote Cambodian school where a pilot laptop program has been in place since 2001

  • OLPC Class - Mongolia Ulaanbaatar

    An OLPC class in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

See also

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