One Laptop Per Child

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One Laptop Per Child
Making learning accessible through technology
Tommy Gober tommygober_at_letu.edu
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Goals

• Learning Learning
• Scale vs. pilot
• Beyond school
• Features

Its an education project, not a
laptop project. --Nicholas Negroponte
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Why?

• Why not food, medicine, electricity, textbooks?

This is not just a matter of giving a laptop to
each child, as if bestowing on them some magical
charm. The magic lies within - within each child,
within each scientist, scholar, or just plain
citizen in the making
--Kofi Annan
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Project

• Hardware
• Software
• Logistics
• Infrastructure
• Digital Education

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Hardware

• Easy
• Innovative
• Exciting
• Robust

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Networking

• 802.11s
• Mesh Demo
• Marvell NIC
• External Antennae
• Range

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Software

• Easy
• Innovative
• Nimble
• Transparent

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Education

• Constructivist
• Collaborative
• Personal
• Peer
• Targeted
• 6-16 yrs

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Energy

• Low consumption (2W)
• Generators
• Alternative Energy
• Potenco salad spinner
• Solar

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Adopters
Nigeria
Uruguay
Argentina
Peru
Brazil
Rwanda
Thailand
Nigerian Pilot Site
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Help

• Peripherals
• Software Design
• Education Ideas
• Translation
• Awareness
• Emulation

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more /src

• laptop.org
• wiki.laptop.org
• olpcnews.com

• Emulation (VM, LiveCD)
• University Chapter?

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Tommy Gober, 2007 LeTourneau University