A vision by Nicholas Negroponte One Laptop Per Child A vision by Nicholas Negroponte

Have you ever lived in a town without a library? Why the Need ??? Have you ever lived in a town without a library? Have you ever lived without a telephone? Have you ever lived without electricity?

So what's the real picture ??? Most of the nearly two–billion children in the developing world are inadequately educated, or receive none at all. One in three does not complete the fifth grade. Given the resources that developing countries can reasonably allocate to education—sometimes less than $20 per year per pupil, compared to the approximately $7500 per pupil spent annually in the U.S

What will XO be ??? The XO will be a textbook. The XO will be a library. The XO will be a telephone The XO will be a camera. The XO will be a orchestra. The XO will be a human powered. The XO will be a networked. The XO will be a opportunity.

XO Laptop

Lets Talk about it !!! Specifications and hardware Details . 433 Mhz AMD Geode GX @ 1W (sorry, Intel) 128 MiB RAM 512 MiB storage Camera and mic builtin No moving parts Membranecovered keyboard Trackpad / stylus pad Sturdy enough for kids Dual Mode Display for Inside and Outside . Wireless Internet using Mesh configuration.

How it all started !!! 1967 Wally Feurzeig, Daniel Bobrow, Richard Grant, Cynthia Solomon, and Seymour Papert introduce Logo, the first programming language written especially for children. 1968 Alan Kay describes his proto-laptop, the Dynabook, as “a portable interactive personal computer, as accessible as a book.” 1980 Papert publishes Mindstorms: Children, Computers and Powerful Ideas, a popular guide to his theories of constructionism and computing for kids. 1995 In his influential Being Digital, Negroponte paints a picture of the future of personal computing. The book becomes an international best-seller and is translated into 40 languages.

April 2002 Negroponte provides 20 children in a small, remote Cambodian village with connected laptops; for their individual use at school, at home, and in the community. January 2005 Negroponte sketches out his idea for a $100 laptop for the poor children of the world in an e-mail to his old friend, Hector Ruiz, CEO of AMD. Six hours later, Ruiz replies: “Count us in, and we would be delighted to take a lead role here.” Within weeks, News Corp. and Google also join as founding members of the newly formed program, One Laptop per Child. November 2007 Mass production begins December 2007 Children begin learning with the XO.

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