1 Laptop per 3rd World n00b
PWN those less fortunate UCB Original by The Brig. Written and Directed by Adam Sacks. Featuring Matt Mayer. More Original Sketches at ucbcomedy.com
Project For Awesome: One Laptop Per Child
Give a Laptop. Get a Laptop. Change the world. An education project to put low-cost, connected laptops in the hands of the poorest children in the world. www.laptop.org Please donate whatever you can to OLPC on this FaceBook Causes page apps.facebook.com More OLPC photos and videos on Flickr www.flickr.com To give a laptop and get [...]
Microwaving An OLPC Laptop In HD Widescreen
Welcome to dOvetastic Microwave Theater. Today your professional microwave operator is going to be microwaving an OLPC for your viewing pleasure. “OLPCslug” original artwork is available for only 001 signed and dated here at this Ebay Auction: cgi.ebay.com 80% Of the proceeds from this art sale go directly to the OLPC Foundation, That is enough [...]
one laptop per child XO prototype at siggraph 2007
matthew hockenberry of creativesynthesis.net demonstrates the one laptop per child’s fourth production prototype of the ‘hundred-dollar laptop’ at siggraph 2007 – video by leonardo bonanni of hyperexperience.com FAQ -Yes, this is the hundred dollar laptop -No, you can’t buy one – they are only sold to governments in minimum orders of one million -It actually [...]
Seymour Papert Interview – One Laptop per Child (OLPC)
Interview with Seymour Papert – Speaking on behalf of the One Laptop per Child Foundation (OLPC). A mathematician by training, Seymour Papert was one of the early pioneers of artificial intelligence. He is also internationally recognized as a primary thinker regarding computers and pedagogy for children. One Laptop Per Child will be offering a Give [...]
UNICEF: One Laptop per Child, Google launch initiative
NEW YORK, 7 December 2007 — UNICEF, One Laptop per Child (OLPC) and Google today announced the launch of “Our Stories” (www.ourstories.org), a joint initiative to preserve and share the histories and identities of cultures around the world by making personal stories available online in many languages. Using laptops, mobile phones and other recording devices, [...]
Masi Oka Interview – One Laptop per Child (OLPC)
Interview with Masi Oka – Speaking on behalf of the One Laptop per Child Foundation (OLPC). One Laptop Per Child will be offering a Give One Get One Program in North America through December 31, 2007. For 9, you will be purchasing two XO laptops—one that will be sent to empower a child to learn [...]
Nicholas Negroponte: One Laptop per Child, two years on
http://www.ted.com Nicholas Negroponte talks about how One Laptop per Child is doing, two years in. Speaking at the EG conference while the first XO laptops roll off the production line, he recaps the controversies and recommits to the goals of this far-reaching project.
OLPC Mission, Part 1: Principles and Child Empowerment
One Laptop per Child: http://laptop.org
It’s an education project, not a laptop project. Inexpensive, durable, networked laptops are important to better education everywhere in the world, empowering children and communities, and sharing access to modern skills with every child on the planet.
OLPC Mission, Part 2: The XO Laptop, design for learning
Why give a Laptop? See http://laptop.org and http://laptop.org/givemany
Substitute the word Laptop, with the word Education, and you have much of the answer. XOs make it possible to collaborate, learn, teach, and publish at no cost. They inspire new forms of learning, and attention to education. And the provide access to [...]