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The One Laptop Per Child Project
Schools in the developing world often have expenditures as low as
$20 per child per year. Barely enough to fund teachers and classrooms, with little left over for textbooks, resource libraries or science equipment. Estimates are that as many as 75 million children will have no primary school education at all. Financial accessibility to the knowledge and communications resources of the world is often severely constrained, and attempts to solve the problem with traditional expenditures are often diverted from their intended goals.
The One Laptop Per Child project is an attempt to improve the financial accessibility of the world's knowledge and communications for the children of the developing world. By providing an inexpensive textbook reader that is also a general computing and communications platform, the OLPC XO laptop and its supporting infrastructure will allow millions of children access otherwise not possible. We will look at the challenges the project faces, how it is addressing those challenges, and the challenges it still faces in providing accessible education to the children of the world.
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