Tag Archives: OLPC

One Laptop Per Child; Is That Enough?

ellen sluis | 13 October 2009, 10:57 am | tags: , , , , , , , , ,

Isn’t it ironic that we’re trying to reduce the digital inequality and poverty with ICT, while it is the ICT that caused and augments this digital divide? We’re using technology to solve the problems it has caused…

Negroponte’s OLPC, a Star in Rwanda

Ali Balunywa | 30 July 2009, 9:12 am | tags: ,

His mother, Jael paid for the laptop in February 2009, but Collin received it in April this year. Collins claims the whole student community at the school right from kindergarten to secondary school got each a laptop. Each pupil had to part with the equivalent of US $ 220.00 in order for one’s son/daughter acquire one.

Gun vs. OLPC Computer

Ben White | 13 December 2008, 11:34 am | tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) has once again put itself into the eye of the storm. The organization recently released a commercial where we see a child polishing a shoe, a little girl standing on a street corner and a young boy training to become a child soldier. The commercial starts with the line “Children are fast learners” and closes…

One Laptop Per Child in the Netherlands

Carolien van der Vorst | 19 December 2007, 1:42 am | 2 comments | tags: ,

On saturday the 15th of December, the first meeting of the Dutch OLPC grassroots group took place.
There were lots of interesting ideas and plans. One of them is trying to get XO’s to the Netherlands in order to start programming. How and when this is going to happen is still uncertain. Check the Wiki for more information and…