One Laptop Per Child

One Laptop Per Child (OLPC abbreviated) can be called also The Children's Machine or XO-1 or the $ 100 laptop is a program to provide affordable laptops to children around the world, especially children in developing countries, in the hope that they can access knowledge and modern education. OLPC later became the name of a nonprofit organization formed by members of the MIT Media Lab. These organizations serve to design, create and distribute the laptops in question. This program was initiated by Nicholas Negroponte. Laptop itself will be a mini computer that requires very minimal effort, using flash memory to replace hard disk, and use linux as operating system [1]. Mobile ad-hoc networking will be used to allow some laptops can access the Internet simultaneously from a single Internet access. Table of Contents [hide] 1 Price 2 contractor and the state ordering See also 3 4 References Price This laptop will be sold to governments that are interested and will be distributed to every school child. The starting price is expected around U.S. $ 135-140 (approximately Rp 1.200.000, - with 9000/US exchange rate USD $ 1) and is targeted to reach U.S. $ 100 (approximately USD 900.000, - with 9000/US exchange rate USD $ 1) in the year 2008. Approximately 500 fruit samples laptop (Alpha-1) distributed in the summer of 2006 Then the 875 prototypes that can be used (Beta 1) is sent at the end of 2006 Some laptops 2400 Beta-2 distributed in February 2007 Mass production expected to begin in mid-2007. The contractor and the state ordering In February 2007, Quanta Computer, the project contractors say that they had confirmed orders for one million units. They indicated that they could send five million to 10 million units in 2007 for seven countries have committed to buy the XO-1 for school children. Those countries are Argentina, Brazil, Libya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Thailand and Uruguay [2]. However, Thailand's military junta government to cancel the participation of the country [3] after they took over power through a military coup in 2006. Orders later developed into a broader, covering the countries: Argentina Brazil Cambodia Costa Rica Dominican Republic Egypt Libya Nigeria Pakistan Rwanda Tunisia United States (especially the state of Massachusetts and Maine) Uruguay See also Classmate PC, a cheap laptop developed by Intel Digital Textbook Project of South Korea to distribute tablet notebooks to students of primary school. Tianhua GX-1C, part of the cheap machines developed by Sinomanic in China OpenBook Project, a project similar to the OLPC Simputer adalh earliest projects in designing mobile computers cheaper in India VIA pc-1 Initiative project of VIA Technologies to bridge the digital distribution. Wizzy Digital Courier: Internet access to rural schools via USB stick Edubuntu: a free Linux distribution designed for use in education.

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