Mary Lou Jepsen testing the laptop’s waterproof design
Designer Mary Lou Jepsen takes the $100 laptop out in the rain to test its waterproof design.
Posted by BBC.co.uk
November 28, 2007
Nigerian school
Rory Cellan-Jones visits a Nigerian school where children use laptops made for the developing world.
Posted by BBC.co.uk
Yo-yo power chord
One Laptop Per Child developer Chris Blizzard shows how the XO machine can be powered by pump action.
Posted at BBC.co.uk
November 27, 2007
BBC Audio Slideshow from Galadima
OLPC Nigeria coverage by the BBC
“We think that change has to be dramatic. You’ve got to be big, you’ve got to be bold. And what has happened is that there has been an effort to say ‘don’t take any risks - just do something small, something incremental’. It feels safe but by definition what you are ensuring is that nothing happens” says Walter Bender on the BBC.
Professor Bender said there was still an “aggressive” effort to undermine the charity. “There is still a concerted misinformation campaign out there,” he said. Mr Bender said he would not speculate on who was behind the alleged campaign. “Wherever it is coming from, it exists,” he told BBC News. But he said the main problem for OLPC was dealing with conservative politicians. “Change equals risk especially for politicians. And we are certainly advocating change because the [education] system is failing these children,” he said. “It has not been that processor versus that processor or that operating system versus that operating system - it’s been small thinking versus big thinking. That’s really the issue,” he said.
“Uruguay is first then it will be Peru, Mexico, Ethiopia then we are going to be doing stuff in Haiti, Rwanda and Mongolia,” said Mr Bender. In addition, he said, OLPC had done a deal with Birmingham, Alabama, in the US, to provide the laptop for schools in the city. “The numbers of countries where we have trials set up is also increasing,” he said. Tests were also going on in the Solomon Islands, Nepal and India.
Posted at BBC.co.uk
See also more coverage by someone on the BBC crew using his mobile phone camera at the Galadima primary school here.
November 26, 2007
OLPC at the Internet Archive
Brewster Kahle shows the XO laptop and the e-book reader program.
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Ministerio de Educación - Proyecto “Una laptop por niño”
Alumnos de la Institución Educativa Santiago Apostol de Arahuay del nivel Primaria experimentan con la computadora tipo laptop en el marco del proyecto piloto “Una computadora por niño” que inició el MED en esta escuela unidocente y multigrado.
Posted by minedu01
November 24, 2007
November 23, 2007
Video from the OLPC pilot in Khairat India
Zee News Marathi visits the village of Khairat where there is an OLPC pilot being underway.
OLPC in Galadima Nigeria - BBC visit
A short film - all shot on a mobile phone - giving an impression of the One Laptop Per Child pilot in Galadima, Abuja, Nigeria. Shot during a BBC filming trip.
The OLPC laptop seen in the streets of Galadima:
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