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Dec 19 2008

One Laptop per Child in Africa

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One Laptop per Child is a nonprofit organization that oversees the development of the incredibly affordable educational laptop.

OLPC is currently running the Give-one-Get-one (G1G1) program and so I decided to take a look at how the program is progressing and its impact in Africa.

Read on..

tagged: Ethiopia, Intel, Linux, Negroponte, OLPC, Rwanda, Windows | posted in Africa, Education, ICT4D, Telecommunications


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