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$100 Dollar Laptop One Laptop Per Child Project

$100 Dollar Laptop One Laptop Per Child Project. By Ricardo De La Fuente. BIRTH OF $100 Dollar Laptop. First Introduced at the World Summit for Information Society by Kofi Annan and Nicholas Negroponte Provide hand-crank powered laptops to children in developing countries.

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$100 Dollar Laptop One Laptop Per Child Project

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  1. $100 Dollar LaptopOne Laptop Per Child Project By Ricardo De La Fuente

  2. BIRTH OF $100 Dollar Laptop • First Introduced at the World Summit for Information Society by Kofi Annan and Nicholas Negroponte • Provide hand-crank powered laptops to children in developing countries

  3. One Laptop Per Child Aim • The mission of One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is to empower the children of developing countries to learn by providing one connected laptop to every school-age child • Most of the nearly two billion children in the emerging world don’t have access to adequate education. The XO laptop is our answer to this crisis OLPC was founded by Nicholas Negroponte with a core of Media Lab veterans(Pictured Above)

  4. Computer Specifications

  5. Costs and Production • Higher volumes production of these laptops decrease individual overall cost per laptop • Free Software • Cheap Hardware

  6. Summary of laptop orders[i]

  7. Give one get one(G1G1) Program Customers can buy a laptop and give one for $399 or simply give one for $199 (can be done with amazon.com)

  8. LAPTOP.ORG

  9. References • http://laptop.org/en/vision/index.shtml • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLPC_XO-1 • http://computer.howstuffworks.com/hundred-dollar-laptop.htm • http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,296870,00.html# • http://www.wisdomquotes.com/cat_education.html • http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=sc_iw_l_0_1243369011?ie=UTF8&node=1243335011

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