One Laptop Per Child Visits the NYSE
One Laptop Per Child visits the NYSE to commemorate the launch of its “Give 1, Get 1” project. In honor of the occasion, Founder & Chairman Nicholas Negroponte rings The Opening Bell.
One Laptop Per Child
One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is a non-profit organization created by Nicholas Negroponte and others from the MIT Media Lab to design, manufacture and distribute laptop computers that are sufficiently inexpensive to provide every child in the world access to knowledge and modern forms of education. The laptops will be sold to governments and issued to children by schools on a basis of one laptop per child. These machines will be rugged, open source, and so energy efficient that they can be powered by a child manually. Mesh networking will give many machines internet access from one connection. The pricing goal is $100.
"Give 1 Get 1" is a two-week program that will enable an individual who lives in the USA or Canada to support the OLPC Foundation and its work by paying for two XO children’s laptop computers – one to give, one to get. The laptop to give will go to a child in a developing nation. The laptop you get can be used by you or a deserving child or friend. The Give 1 Get 1 program is designed to promote awareness and understanding of the education value of the XO laptop, to encourage the open-source software community to create education content to support use of the XO laptop by children in the developing world, and, of course, to put more XO laptops into the hands of those children. The two-week, limited-time offer will run from Monday, November 12 through Monday, November 26, 2007.
For more information, go to www.xogiving.org