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OLPC: Give One Get One

By fpp ⋅ 13-November-2007 at 13:05 (UTC) ⋅ Post a comment

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MIT Professor Nicholas Negroponte’s “OLPC program” has started delivering the long awaited One Laptop Per Child computers in the US and Canada.

We have recently seen how greatly these small computers were received by children in Africa and how cleverly features have been designed into it. They create mash networks between them automatically so that children can communicate with each other, can change from color to B&W so that the display is still readable outside in bright sunlight and you can - a key feature in many countries for which this computer is intended - recharge its batteries without electricity from the grid. But most importantly we’ve seen the joy and fun the children had while using the XO laptops.

So this month until November 26, OLPC is offering a “Give One Get One program” in the United States and Canada. And it works like this…

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