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Rwanda: Country to Host OLPC Learning Centre for Africa
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| According to the State Minister of Education Theoneste Mutsindashyaka,
| Government has already ordered 100,000 units to be delivered in phases, worth
| about US $18.1m and the first shipment of 5,000 computers is expected in the
| country at the end of June while more 15,000 pieces will be shipped in by
| August.
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http://allafrica.com/stories/200905280009.html
Kids in 26 schools get laptops
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| The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program, envisioned by MIT (Massachusetts
| Institute of Technology) professor Nicholas Negroponte and introduced in
| Nepal in 2008, has already equipped children in 26 schools throughout Nepal´s
| six districts with a laptop each.
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http://www.myrepublica.com/portal/index.php?action=news_details&news_id=5686
Recent:
OLPC kickstarts notebook program for indigenous children
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| Branching out to Australia two years ago, the organisation was established in
| the US to provide disadvantaged primary school children access to educational
| resources. So far, OLPC has trialed the notebook scheme across Oceanic
| nations including Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu.
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http://www.arnnet.com.au/article/304864/olpc_kickstarts_notebook_program_indigenous_children
Rwanda: Country to Host OLPC Learning Centre for Africa
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| Rwanda is set to become home to the pilot learning centre for the One Laptop
| Per Child (OLPC) project in Africa due to its outstanding progress in
| promoting the child user friendly computer on the continent.
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| The centre to be located at the Kigali Institute of Science and Technology
| (KIST) to be known as the OLPC Learning Centre will be launched on June 9 and
| it is aimed at supporting Rwanda achieve its objectives of promoting ICT in
| Education but also act as a reach out centre for the whole of Africa.
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http://allafrica.com/stories/200905280009.html
Sugar Wins! Nobody Buying Windows XO Laptops
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| It was almost exactly one year ago that Nicholas Negroponte announced an
| agreement between OLPC and Microsoft to bring Windows XP to the XO-1 to great
| turmoil. I vividly remember the late-night flood of e-mails and IRC chats
| where everyone was trying to figure out just what that announcement really
| meant.
|
| [...]
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| I've been wondering about what ever happened to these Windows XP-based OLPC
| trials. I haven't really heard anything about them in quite some time. Now
| more recently I've asked around and found there is a good reason why I
| haven't seen anything: countries are choosing Sugar over Windows XP for their
| XO deployments.
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http://www.olpcnews.com/software/windows/nobody_buying_windows_xo_laptops.html
OLPC goes the full Fedora
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| Developer Chris Ball has announced that the upcoming OLPC XO-1.5 laptop
| software release will be based on Fedora 11. The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC)
| project is a non-profit organisation who's mission is to provide children
| across the world with low cost laptops for self-education.
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http://www.h-online.com/open/OLPC-goes-the-full-Fedora--/news/113315
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