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AfterEd follows volunteers and staff as they troubleshoot the One Laptop Per Child and explain what is going on with the project right now.

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8 min documentary about the 2nd pilot test in Ethiopia. Testing at 2 primary schools with 2nd grade students, Sep-Dec 2007.

Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi has confirmed (last November) his commitment of giving 50,000 laptops to Ethiopia. The importance of the funding is its exemplary nature - it is model for other European countries and the EU itself to follow.

Nicholas Negroponte has recently said in an Interview that a Give 1 Get 1 program for Italians to donate more laptops to Ethiopia was under consideration to be launched very soon. Perhaps the program could even provide a second donated laptop by the Italian government as a donation matching encitement. So for perhaps 300€, Italians will give 1 to Ethiopia, the government will match the donation with another to Ethiopia and 1 laptop will come to the Italian person who donated. The exact way the donations are considered in Italy has not been detailed but this is how I expect it could happen.

As for OLPC in the UK could also be initiating a Give 1 Get 1 program very soon sending laptops to children in Iran.

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See also this other video documentary of the OLPC pilot projects underway in Ethiopia.

You can digg this video here: http://digg.com/linux_unix/50_000_OLPC_laptops_going_to_Ethiopia

This is the complete BBC documentary from the Galadima primary school OLPC pilot project.

Download or watch this documentary in the WMV format (147mb)

Posted by Ashish

Also watch the episodes 1, 2 and 3.

Anders Mogensen, the co-founder of Seismonaut heads to Nigeria to visit the first school testing the 100 dollar laptop:

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Anders Mogensen posted an article at olpcnews.com

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This is a clip of the ABC affiliate station covering some of the work the Open Source Lab at Oregon State University are doing.

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Source: David Kirkpatrick’s article

This is the story of the litte green laptop that could. Meet the faces behind the One Laptop per Child initiative and see what they do every day in the Cambridge, MA office. Sit in on a brainstorming session. And find out what you can do to help. This video features Mary Lou Jepsen, John Palmieri, Chris Blizzard, Walter Bender, Eben Eliason, David Woodhouse, Owen Williams and Marcello Tosatti.

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