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Nonprofit Laptops: A Dream Not Yet Over
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| Does he regret having promised so much? âWhen I
| started, I had to be knowingly hyperbolic,
| otherwise we could not have changed corporate
| strategy or swung governments into action,â
| said Mr. Negroponte. âIt attracted the kind of
| attention that made this happen. Had I just
| said that I would make two million laptops by
| 2010 for children, OLPC would have been just
| another start-up.â
|
| [...]
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| Despite everything, Mr. Negroponte claims that
| the tide is turning. Late last month the
| Uruguayan government completed the process of
| distributing an XO1 to each of its 415,000
| elementary school children as the first phase
| of the Plan Ceibal initiative to provide a
| laptop for every student and teacher in the
| country.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/09/arts/09iht-design9.html?_r=1
Recent:
OLPC switching to ARM, plans paper thin netbook
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| One Laptop per Child chairman Nicholas
| Negroponte told Xconomy that OLPC is
| prepping an ARM-based version 1.75 of its
| XO netbook while planning to release a
| "paper-thin" version 3.0 in 2012.
| Meanwhile, the Internet Archive is
| providing OLPC users with 1.6 million e-
| books, says the nonprofit organization.
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http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/OLPC-175-and-3/?kc=rss
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