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One Laptop Per Child

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One Laptop per Child
FormationJanuary 2005
TypeNon-profit
HeadquartersCambridge, Massachusetts
Official language
Multilingual
Chairman
Nicholas Negroponte
Key people
Charles Kane, Seymour Papert, Alan Kay
Websitewww.laptop.org

One Laptop Per Child is an organization founded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It is a non-profit organization. From 2004 to 2014 it made cheap laptops so that children in less rich countries without as much technology can also use a computer to learn. Their XO laptop had an operating system called sugar based on GNU/Linux. It also ran Windows.[1]

Since 2014, the organization mainly gives out Chromebooks.

References

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  1. "Windows - OLPC". Wiki.laptop.org. Retrieved 2011-10-29.