Category Archives: OLPC

Archimedes: A Big Enough Lever

May 9, 2008 – 8:42 am

This morning on the way to work, I was thinking about the critics of the One Laptop per Child program. Lots of people maintain that, rather than sending a $100 laptop to kids in third-world countries, we would do far better to send them $100 in food. And to a degree, I think they’re right [...]

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XO Laptop: First Impressions

January 31, 2008 – 8:58 am

We got in our XO Laptop, the little unit that the One Laptop Per Child organization has begun producing and making available to poorer countries for less than $200 per laptop. (Read David Pogue’s article for a quick introduction to the concept.) Here are my first impressions after fiddling about with it for an hour [...]

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Give One, Get One Starts Today

November 12, 2007 – 12:35 pm

Just a reminder: The One Laptop Per Child initiative starts its Give One, Get One promotion today.
The deal again is this: you plunk down $400, which pays for two XO laptops. One goes to a child in a developing country, one goes to the child in your life (who might be you)!
This promotion only is [...]

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Give a Laptop, Get a Laptop

October 3, 2007 – 9:46 am

I’ve been intrigued by the One Laptop per Child initiative for several months. Some of my interest is philanthropic, though part of me suspects that if we’re really interested in helping the youth of the planet, these funds might better go toward clean water, health care, and more traditional education. The bigger reason that it [...]

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