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One Laptop per Child United Nations November 16, 2006

Learn about the One Laptop Per Child initiative, a non-profit organization with $25M funding, aiming to provide children with affordable laptops to own, take home, and use seamlessly. Discover the partners, launch countries, and the commitment to a $100 target price by the end of 2008.

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One Laptop per Child United Nations November 16, 2006

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  1. One Laptop per Child United Nations November 16, 2006

  2. 1. Learning Learning 2. Teaching is only one way 3. Leverage children themselves

  3. What is: One Laptop Per Child ? • 1. A non-profit entity with $25M funding • for non-recurring engineering costs • 2. About scale, scale, scale • being global is crucial • launch 3-5 million in 2007 • 50-150 million 2008 • >5 large diverse countries • 3. To provide to children: to own, • to take home, to use seamlessly

  4. Partners: AMD News Corp Google Brightstar Red Hat Nortel Marvell eBay Quanta Chi Mei SES/Astra Citigroup Real Networks Seagate Adobe United Nations IADB

  5. 500 Mhz AMD x86 processor 128M DRAM 512M FLASH <2 W nominal, can be human powered 3 USB ports Stereo sound, with 2 audio out WiFi mesh network Rugged Dual mode display Camera, full resolution and video

  6. Launch countries Argentina Brazil Libya Nigeria Thailand In discussion with: China, Pakistan, Turkey, Mexico, Bangladesh, Palestine, Uruguay and Central American States as a group

  7. Laptop price commitment $100 target price end of 2008 Price will float based on: currency, memory, nickel, cobalt $148 anticipated in 2007 constantly lowering $ 50 target price in 2010 Gray market issues

  8. Economics Initial and launch: Central government funded Single big orders Subsequently: One country paying for another Child-to-child funding Commercial subsidy Micro-philanthropy …….etc.

  9. Summary and side effects Linux on the desktop No caps lock key Power consciousness more human power No bloated software stop featuritis Viral telecommunications Peer to peer everything Learning by doing

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