What is olpc
One Laptop per Child. OLPC is a non-profit organization founded by Nicholas Negroponte with a core of Media Lab veterans OLPC’s Mission 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. 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. OLPC’s XO laptops are rugged, open source, and energy efficient and Mesh Networking gives many machines internet access from a single Internet connection. The pricing goal is $100. It’s not a laptop project. It’s an education project