One Laptop Per Child
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| One Laptop per Child | |
|---|---|
| Formation | January 2005 |
| Type | Non-profit |
| Headquarters | Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Official languages | Multilingual |
| Chairman | Nicholas Negroponte |
| Key people | Charles Kane, Seymour Papert, Alan Kay |
| Website | www.laptop.org |
One Laptop Per Child is an organization founded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It is a non-profit organisation. It wants to make cheap laptops so that children in less wealthy countries without as much technology can also use a computer to learn. The laptop is called an XO. It has an operating system called sugar based on GNU/Linux. It also can run Windows.[1]
References [change]
- ↑ "Windows - OLPC". Wiki.laptop.org. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Windows. Retrieved 2011-10-29.
