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

February 7th, 2010 by admin 

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 [...]

November 28th, 2009 by admin 

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 [...]

July 21st, 2009 by admin 

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 [...]

June 14th, 2009 by admin 

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 [...]

June 4th, 2009 by admin 

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, [...]

May 5th, 2009 by admin 

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 [...]

April 19th, 2009 by admin 

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.

February 19th, 2009 by admin 

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.

February 11th, 2009 by admin 

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 [...]

February 2nd, 2009 by admin