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OLPC – One Laptop per Child, Project for Poorer, India Interested in its Rich Population

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OLPC – One Laptop per Child, Project for Poorer, India Interested in its Rich Population

OLPC a Projects initiated by Nicholas Negroponte to put Laptop computers in hands of children around the world especially in lesser developed countries and remote regions of countries where there is no reach of respective countries' education policies and programs. The OLPC's mission is to spread the computer technology among millions of children growing up across the globe, so as to improve their education and learning ability, where they are not concerned about rivalry of Google and Yahoo or Myspace hype. OLPC has also created laptop called XO, especially designed (in terms of interface, GUI, software/ hardware) for children of emerging nations who doesn't know anything about Iphone or sophisticated gadgets, their interfaces, than children of high upbringing who hangs around with Ipod or so. This laptop has visionary price of $100 which rather cost more than this to organization at time of production. With so called booming, scaling economy country, India decided not to show any due concern for this projects by rejecting XO Loptops and neglecting it to show presence in India, which happened last year when at the same tiime Nigeria ordered million of laptops for its children. Later in year 2006 Libya announces 1.2 million laptops for every school ...

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