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$100 Laptop Takes Shape
Talkback While the spreading of knowledge, education and technology is an admirable goal, I can't help but feel that spending $100 per child on innoculation, immunization and plain good old-fashioned education to show them how to improve their quality of...
[May 25, 2006, 12:05]
$100 Laptop To Be Built In Taiwan
News Taiwan's Quanta, the biggest manufacturer of notebooks in the world, has signed on to the $100 laptop project. The OLPC organisation, which hopes to bring a $100 laptop championed by MIT's Nicholas Any previous doubt that a very-low-cost laptop...
[December 14, 2005, 8:40]
$100 Laptop: Moving From A Technical To A Social Debate
Talkback Because the kids treat the laptop as their most valued possession and so take good care of them. The laptop itself is an object to which the kids will have great emotional attachment: the head of the project, Nicholas Negroponte, reported an almost...
[November 13, 2006, 18:53]
$100 Laptop Takes Shape
Talkback "One Laptop Per Child crusade"? I think perhaps you may mean "campaign". AFAIR, a crusade is a sort of war, with questionable historical precedent.
[May 25, 2006, 11:17]
$100 Laptop Goes Into Production
Blog The first 1000 machines from the One Laptop per Child project have gone into production. The new batch of notebooks are going to face some vigorous testing according to OLPC to make sure the design is fit for being bounced about in Africa or...
[November 23, 2006, 14:46]
Gates Mocks $100 Laptop
Talkback The linux software is stored on the server computer and each laptop runs off the network with each child having their own usb stick to boot from, with their configuration and files store on the stick.
[March 17, 2006, 15:42]
Why India Said No To The $100 Laptop
Leader India's rejection of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative will not surprise anyone who's been following the unfortunate progress of MIT's Media Labs outside the United States. That's not much of a calling card when you're trying to persuade a...
[July 27, 2006, 17:05]
$100 Laptop Scheme Insists On Open Source
News Negroponte regarding OLPC [one laptop per child], we cannot comment on the specifics of these discussions," said a Microsoft spokeswoman. The organisation behind the creation of a $100 (£57) laptop for the developing world has refused an offer of...
[November 15, 2005, 16:00]
India Ditches 'potentially Harmful' $100 Laptop Plan
News The Indian government rejected proposals by the country's Planning Commission to buy the $100 (£54) hardware from Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project. According to local newspaper Kaumudi, India's education secretary Sudeep...
[July 27, 2006, 16:30]
$100 Laptop Takes Shape
News The One Laptop Per Child crusade for low-cost PCs for developing nations is another step closer to the assembly line. The working laptop, he wrote, is "completely self-contained, a real milestone for us".
[May 25, 2006, 9:50]
Part 3!!! $100 Laptop: Moving From A Technical To A Social Debate
Talkback The documentary producers should also be prepared to continue longitudinal studies on the impact of the laptops in order to assist the future adopters of one laptop per child. One of the major advantages of the $100 laptop project is one of its...
[November 13, 2006, 19:11]
$100 Laptop Project Is 'fundamentally Flawed'
News The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) scheme is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the history of the IT industry, according to Tony Roberts, chief executive and founder of UK charity Computer Aid International.
[June 20, 2006, 15:05]
$100 Laptop: Moving From A Technical To A Social Debate.....cont.....
Talkback Let's not forget one of the greatest capacities of human kind: a child's ability to learn a language. Three = the laptop itself: talks on how it works, issues surrounding distribution, maintenance, long term, Linux, etc etc
[November 13, 2006, 19:04]
$100 Laptop Trials Begin Within Weeks
News Reports that trials of the $100 laptop project will kick off in Thailand alone have been quashed by Nicholas Negroponte, founder and chairman of the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) association. The One Laptop per Child project aims to develop a...
[August 22, 2006, 13:50]
The Developing World Needs Well-developed Ideas
Leader Bill Gates doesn't like the One Laptop Per Child project, which he says is too small, too fiddly, and missing the point. If Bill Gates and $100 laptop progenitor Nick Negroponte were to look at the places without light and listen to those without a...
[March 17, 2006, 14:15]
The $100 Laptop: A Well Intentioned Waste Of Time?
News While the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative from the Media Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is laudable, it is unlikely to succeed without suitable support mechanisms to help the developing world exploit the technology.
[November 22, 2005, 10:55]
$100 PC Project Will 'invigorate Linux Desktop Push'
News The $100 laptop project — also known as the one laptop per child (OLPC) scheme — was announced at the World Economic Forum in January 2005. Beyond a founding corporate sponsorship, we've put engineering and other strategic resources behind the One...
[January 31, 2006, 9:30]
'$100 Laptop' Consumer Launch Rumours Denied
News One Laptop per Child (OLPC), headed by MIT Labs' Nicholas Negroponte, insisted suggestions that the XO laptop would be sold through eBay, to anyone who was willing to pay for a second machine for third-world countries, were untrue.
[January 11, 2007, 9:38]
The $100 Laptop - Don't Get Carried Away
Leader So when Nicholas Negroponte and his team from MIT says that he can do just this with a $100 laptop designed for every child, it takes an icy soul to be contrarian. One PDA per child is an idea: one proper PC per village with a permanent wireless...
[November 17, 2005, 13:20]
$100 Laptop 'will Boost Desktop Linux'
News The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project will make Linux as popular on the desktop as it is on the server today, according to Nicholas Negroponte, head of the project and founder of MIT's media lab. The One Laptop per Child project aims to develop a...
[June 2, 2006, 17:10]
