Trials, Tribulations & Testimonials | One Laptop Per Child

Trials, Tribulations & Testimonials | One Laptop Per Child AOC World’s Women

One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) is MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte’s non-profit effort that challenged PC makers to produce a $100 laptop for distribution into the hands of developing world schoolchildren.

Negroponte’s vision is to put a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning in the hands of the planet’s poorest kids. OLPC’s vision is not to give the world’s poor children first world hand-me-downs but rather to empower them with the most revolutionary technology on the planet.

This vision has always been a grand one. The first generation XO laptop never hit its goal of $100, and currently sells for $172. The project has been plagued with problems in its technology development and administrative structure.