OLPC's Israeli Migration

A year ago Guy Shefer returned to Israel from an ITU conference with an OLPC. The OLPC is a project that intended to provide cheap ($100) laptops for kids from third world countries. The One Lap Top Per Child project has not only created an amazing computer and a sweet OS for kids that is mainly graphical but it has stirred the laptop market worldwide. It proved that cheap laptops were possible to create and the rest is history. Shefer looked for possible uses for the computer here at Israel and found Netzach Head of the Astronomy, Computers and Young Leadership Programs of the Ilan Ramon foundation. Together they brought the OLPC to children in the southern periphery of Israel. Although the OLPC laptops were not successful the idea of providing children with their own laptops proved remarkably successful as well as working with flexible Open Source OS.

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Science & Technology

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• EEE
• OLPC
• Israel
• OpenSource
• FOSS
• AP2009
• IlanRamon
• Foundation
• ITU
• NetzachFarbiash
• GuyShefer