Zimi’s story, recorded for One Laptop per Child in South Africa. The impact of OLPC on education and one child’s life.

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Brewster Kahle demonstrates the XO laptop as an e-book reader

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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.

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http://laptop.org/g1g1

Masi Oka speaks on behalf of the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) Foundation about the Give One Get One opportunity.

Again in 2008, One Laptop Per Child is offering a Give One Get One Program for a brief window of time in North America. For 9, you will be purchasing two XO laptops—one that will be sent to empower a child to learn in a developing nation, and one that will be sent to your child at home.

For more information, please visit http://laptop.org/g1g1

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http://unboxing.gearlive.com – In this episode, we open up the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) XO-1 laptop computer. The XO-1, previously known as the 0 Laptop or Children’s Machine, is an inexpensive laptop computer intended to be distributed to children in developing countries around the world,[1] to provide them with access to knowledge, and opportunities to “explore, experiment and express themselves” (constructionist learning).[2] The laptop is developed by the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) social welfare organization, and manufactured by the Taiwanese computer company, Quanta Computer.

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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 digital texts in places too remote to send and update physical books in a cost-effective way.

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