One learning child.

One connected child.

One laptop at a time.
 It’s not a laptop project.
It’s an education project.
In 2002, MIT Professor Nicholas Negroponte
experienced first-hand how connected laptops
transformed the lives of children and their families
in a remote Cambodian village.
A seed was planted:
If every child in the world had access to a
computer, what potential could be unlocked? What
problems could be solved?
These questions eventually led to the foundation of:
One Laptop per Child
, and the creation of the:
XO laptop.
 OLPC’s mission is:
to provide a means for learning, self-expression, and
exploration to the nearly two billion children of the
developing world with little or no access to education.
While children are by nature eager for knowledge, many
countries have insufficient resources to devote to
education—sometimes less than $20 per year per child
(compared to an average of $7,500 in the United States).
By giving children their very own connected XO laptop, we
are giving them a window to the outside world, access to
vast amounts of information, a way to connect with each
other, and a springboard into their future. And we’re also
helping these countries develop an essential resource—
educated, empowered children.
 The Laptop
Built-in microphone Built-in camera Backlit screen Game pad

Built-in speakers Game controller Screen rotation

SD memory slot External headphones &

microphone jacks
Antennae ears USB/memory ports

Power jack Keyboard

Split track pad Rechargeable battery

Wi-Fi
The Children
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The Journal
 What children are saying

“I want to thank the initiators because they brought

the laptop to us. I'm really thanking them. I pray that
God will give them more knowledge, and God also gives
them more spirit of giving, so that they help us more,
especially those children in junior classes that don't
have it, so they could equally have it and have the
knowledge.”
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“I use my computer very carefully so that it will not
spoil. I use it to type, I use it to write, I use it to
draw, I use it to play games... I'm using my computer
at home to type assignments.”
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“I think the laptop is very good. It helps us to find
some words, like our uncle [teacher] will teach us...
The things we didn't know, we go check on the
laptop.” ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
“I want to thank you people because you had given us
the laptop and I love it so much. It's very good.
Because you can see lots of things.”
 What teachers are saying

“Before the laptop, the focus of the school curriculum and evaluation was
to show what students don't know. Now, the focus is in what the student
knows, and how this knowledge can be used as a support so they learn
even more.”
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“With the laptop we can say that our school is really elevated because
the children are really learning more... They see themselves discovering
things that they have never been doing before.”
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“The bringing of the laptop into the school has brought a transformation
into the school... It has brought another idea of how to teach better: now
we see that teaching is not more abstract; it's something that pupils can
see, and they catch on better.”
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“Pupils go even beyond what I can teach in the class. It's a very
interesting thing to use. I personally have a better idea about teaching...
We discovered that giving them time to discover something and to do it
in their own way, they feel more happy and they are so excited in using it
that, ‘Yes, I discovered it! Yes, I can get it!! Yes, I can do this on my
own!!!’ Teaching is getting more interesting and less stressful.”
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“Some children are naturally faster than the others; we discovered that
they go ahead of the class. They can teach their mates that, ‘Look I got
it, this is how you do it, this is how you do it, this is how you do it.’ This
way the slower children also are catching up. When the children can learn
on their own, apart from what they can learn in class, they go faster
above their mates in other places.”