The OLPC now available!

Posted on | November 17, 2008 | No Comments

I’ve been circling around the OLPC like a hungry lion around a caged gazelle for months now, waiting for it to be publicly available – and now it finally happened for the Americans. We Europeans will have to wait until December 16, unfortunately.

Background info: OLPC stands for One Laptop Per Child and is the laptop creation of the non-profit One Laptop Per Child Foundation devoted to bringing African kids into the digital age by developing a small, green, environmentally sustainable and low-cost laptop using open source software and a lot of grass-root community muscle and labour. The laptop is distributed to African children using a “Give one, get one”-principle, where willing Western-world consumers pay for not one, but two of the small laptops, and recieve only one of them while the other is sent and given to a child in Africa. Such a magnificent idea.

Get one yourself – and automatically give one.
Me and other Europeans – lurk here.

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