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Uploaded by on Dec 26, 2006

Video of my stay in Reaksmey, interior of Cambodia, pilot village for the 100 dollar laptop

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  • the kids loved you. Thank you for doing what you did to such a remote area of the world. I am Thai by birth, but my ancestors were Cambodians. In fact, many of my family in Surin province speak Khmer. My grandmother was Khmer but Thai adapted. Thats my moms half, I still have my fathers, French, German, American born side. We are all the same anyways.Thai-Lao-Khmer---we are sisters and brothers

  • you guys will one make grew up to make a better country..keep it up

  • Mary Lou Jepsen who develped these "green computers" has appeared in this years time 100 for her works in the develpment of these. congrats to her and

  • deseo mucho futuro y suerte para éste proyecto, yo estoy fielmente con linux

  • intel gave up and try to kill the project by seling a computer named classmate1 with a price bellow the manufacturing cost ( suposed to be illegal practice ? )

    and microsoft joined to make sure the XO wil support he s comercial software and operating syst check the news with olpc keyword and you wll see how much all big compagny are interested in this

    buizness .get ready for :

  • Are they also learning written Khmer? or Just English?

  • Really happy to see this !!! thanks

  • The program in Cambodia has tought us that the laptops are successful and the kids are responsible stewards of the machines (virtually no theft or damage has been reported so far).

    Now the big challenge will be worldwide distribution and implementation.

  • Nick Negroponte and his wife started this program in 1999 in Cambodia. This program sought to implement educational laptops for children in the developing world. For the past several years he has led the team at MIT to design and implement an inexpensive laptop for children.

  • khow did they get the OLPC software to run an windows? its a GNU/Linux computer fgs.. or did it only look like wondows?

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