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Archive for November 16th, 2007

You Can Help Kick Start One Laptop Per Child

Location: Ottawa, Canada

It's been a great week for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative, which I've talked about in a previous post. As a Board member of this effort, seeing the XO laptops go into mass production, seeing the first country orders come in, and now with the Give One Get One (G1G1) program at its mid-point, an idea is becoming a reality.

This week, I was on BNN after the market closed, talking about OLPC and, while there are still lots of people who know little about the effort, the fact that major news outlets and media are seeing, touching and understanding the possible impact of this effort is making the ...

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