One
Laptop
Per
Child
Programs
Arrives
in Costa
Rica
The
program
"The One
Laptop
per
Child"
has
arrived
in Costa
Rica and
the
portable
computers
will
soon be
in Costa
Rican
schools
most in
need.
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The program is a U.S. non-profit organization set up to oversee the creation of an affordable educational device for use in the developing world. Its mission is "to create educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning."
As of March 2010, there are 2 million free books available for OLPC (One Laptop per Child) computers. OLPC has generated a great deal of interest in the Information and Communication Technologies for Development Information and Communication Technologies in Education and one to one computing fields of research. |
The
organization
is led
by the
Foundation's
Chairman
Nicholas
Negroponte,
and the
Association's
Chairman
and
Chief
Executive
Officer
Rodrigo
Arboleda
Halaby.
OLPC is
a
non-profit
organization
funded
by
member
organizations
such as
AMD,
eBay,
Google,
News
Corporation,
Red Hat,
and
Marvell.
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