One Laptop per Child (OLPC) Give One Get One

http://laptop.org/g1g1

Masi Oka speaks on behalf of the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) Foundation about the Give One Get One opportunity.

Again in 2008, One Laptop Per Child is offering a Give One Get One Program for a brief window of time in North America. For $399, you will be purchasing two XO laptops—one that will be sent to empower a child to learn in a developing nation, and one that will be sent to your child at home.

For more information, please visit http://laptop.org/g1g1

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[chinaliew]

a book can cost 100

this laptop cost 100 but have unlimited information in it via internet ,it is a life saver for the poor and thrist for kwodlege

[ThePurpleKyler]

YAAATAAAA!

[luckysister2]

I'm hating that people are giving laptops to these people..they don't want to play video games and surf the web..they want to LIVE..Give them food, water, clothes. They don't give a damn about laptops. I would throw that away if I was living in Africa. It's useless.

[CaptainDishman]

How about getting them clean water and food first? Then I will talk about laptops for starving nations... porn...

[axelasdf]

@clutterfish

For those that have their basic needs met, this program can bring the people up to a point where they can help others. Teach a man to teach a man to fish.

[MotherLeena]

This is also our Good Life Mission's hope - to have for our children the necessary tools of education, which presently we don't have. But we remain hopeful.

[shehani0nline]

There is 1500+ student in my school and we have one Piii computer.

Still we didnt get a CD rom. any one pls send us a used CD rom.

If you can do it pls send us a email !! We will send your CD rom back to you as soon as possible

shehani0nline@yahoo.com

[daplayer]

I forget one of these.

I thought it would go BIG

[vivlevivle]

children can learn without laptops

i do

[GaseousAnomaly001]

@Mentocthemindtaker I'm sorry, I thought it would be mainstream, but I guess not. That's what sucks about personal experience, you know.

[Mentocthemindtaker]

@daveboris I apologise if I came on too strong. I respect your opinion and agree that students don't NEED laptops to become educated. I don't think this makes the OLPC program a bad thing though. The truth is that as a species we are becoming much more closely linked with others in every part of the world. As such we are now sharing technologies - and countries that have no access to these technologies are only going to fall farther and farther behind in terms of global development.

[Mentocthemindtaker]

@GaseousAnomaly001 I did several google searches and failed to find ANYTHING relating to governments seizing or melting down XO laptops in any countries, let alone African ones. Ironically Uruguay's government (one of the most corrupt in the world) became actively involved in ensuring that students got full access to the XO's as soon as possible after the laptop's release.

Perhaps you should do some research before making biased statements.