One Laptop per child
A revolutionary vision sprung up in the mind of Nicholas P. Negroponte, a Professor and senior director of the MIT Media Laboratory, known around the world for innovative use of technology, when he found how connected laptops transformed the lives of children and their families in a remote village in the South-east Asian country of Cambodia. His fertile mind started musing on the possibilities of propagating the spread of low-cost technology around the world. If every child in the third world had access to a computer, what difference would it make to the lives of those impoverished children? Will technology provide the much-needed succor to them? These questions eventually led to the foundation of “One Laptop per Child” (OLPC) project, and the creation of the “XO laptop“.
The laptop is called the XO, because if you turn the logo 90 degrees, it looks like a child!
The mission of the OLPC program is to provide children around the world with new opportunities to explore, experiment and express themselves with the use of a low-cost computer.
This ambitious project, which was started 3 years ago, has gained considerable momentum. Years of work by engineers and scientists have paid off in a pioneering low-cost machine that is light, rugged and surprisingly versatile. The milestones of the project are listed here.
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