One Laptop per Child

The mission of One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is to create educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning. When children have access to this type of tool they get engaged in their own education. They learn, share, create, and collaborate. They become connected to each other, to the world and to a brighter future.

Origin of OLPC
The origins of OLPC stretch back more than four decades to the primordial days of computing, when most machines were still the size of small dinosaurs and next to no one imagined they had any connection to children. Pioneer thinkers such as Seymour Papert dreamed they would be suitable for children, and time has proven the immense power of the personal computer as a learning tool. Here are some of the key milestones in One Laptop per Child's long march from radical theory to reality.

Education
Learning is the basis for full human, social, economic and democratic development. As the pace of change in the world increases dramatically, the urgency to prepare all children to be full citizens of the emerging world also increases dramatically. No one can predict the world our children will inherit. The best preparation for children is to develop the passion for learning and the ability to learn how to learn.

A Few of the Many Profound Successes of OLPC:
November 10, 2008
President John Kufuor and The Ghana Laptop per Child Foundation seed OLPC in Ghana with 10,000 laptops.

October 6, 2008
OLPC and Amazon collaborate to make the 2008 Give One Get One program a success.

August 14, 2008
President Tabaré Vázquez and Plan CEIBAL deliver the 100,000th Uruguayan XO to a child in Villa García

August 6, 2008
OLPC expands its presence in Asia, appointing officers in India and Hong Kong.

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