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One Laptop per Child
Formation January 2005
Type Non-profit
Headquarters Cambridge, Massachusetts
Official languages Multilingual
Chairman Nicholas Negroponte
Key people Charles Kane, Jim Gettys, Seymour Papert, Alan Kay
Website www.laptop.org

The One Laptop Per Child Association, Inc. (OLPC) is a U.S. non-profit organization set up to oversee the creation of an affordable educational device for use in the developing world. Its current focus is on the development, construction and deployment of the XO-1 laptop to promote children's education in developing nations. OLPC has generated a great deal of interest in the Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) and One to one computing fields of research. One Laptop Per Child is a 501(c)(3) organization registered in Delaware, USA.[1]

OLPC is funded by member organizations, including AMD, Brightstar Corporation, eBay, Google, Marvell, News Corporation, SES, Nortel Networks, and Red Hat.[2][3] Each company has donated two million dollars. While OLPC is 'not for profit', the XO-1 manufacturers including many members are expected to receive 5-10% profit from sales of the unit. [4] [5]

The organization is chaired by Nicholas Negroponte. Other principals of the company include Jim Gettys, Vice-President of Software Engineering and Charles Kane, President and Chief Operating Officer.

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[edit] Mission

An OLPC class in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

To create educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning.

—OLPC Mission Statement, [6][7]

It's an education project, not a laptop project.

—Nicholas Negroponte, [8]

The goal of the foundation is to provide children around the world with new opportunities to explore, experiment, and express themselves. To that end, OLPC is designing a laptop, educational software, manufacturing base, and distribution system to provide children outside of the first-world with otherwise unavailable technological learning opportunities.

OLPC lists five core principles:[9]

  1. Child ownership
  2. Low ages. Both hardware and software are designed for elementary school children ages 6-12.
  3. Saturation
  4. Connection
  5. Free and open source

[edit] History

Children in a remote Cambodian school where a pilot laptop program has been in place since 2001.

OLPC is based on constructionist learning theories pioneered by Seymour Papert, Alan Kay, and also on the principles expressed in Nicholas Negroponte’s book Being Digital.[10] These three individuals plus the several sponsor organizations are active participants in OLPC.

Many concepts preceding the OLPC project were discussed and explored at a number of conferences. The 2B1 Conference, held in 1997 at the Media Lab brought together educators from developing countries around the world to "break down world barriers of race, age, gender, language, class, economics and geography." The most immediate outcome of that conference was the establishment of the Nation1 project and the Junior Summit, held the following year, although many of the sessions at 2B1 helped inform OLPC.

Both the project and the organization were announced at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in January 2005 and were created by faculty members of the MIT Media Lab. The OLPC project gained much more attention when Nicholas Negroponte and Kofi Annan unveiled a working prototype of the Children's Machine 1 (CM1) on November 16, 2005 at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Tunis, Tunisia. Negroponte showed two prototypes of the CM1 laptop at the second phase of the World Summit: a non working physical model and a tethered version using an external board and separate keyboard. The device shown was a rough prototype using a standard development board. Negroponte estimated that the screen alone required three more months of development. The first working prototype was demonstrated at the project's Country Task Force Meeting on May 23, 2006. The production version is expected to have a larger display screen in the same size package. The laptops were originally scheduled to be available by early 2007, but production actually began in November, 2007.

At the 2006 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) announced it would back the laptop. UNDP released a statement saying they would work with OLPC to deliver “technology and resources to targeted schools in the least developed countries”.[11]

The project originally aimed for a price of 100 US dollars. In May 2006, Negroponte told the Red Hat's annual user summit: “It is a floating price. We are a nonprofit organization. We have a target of $100 by 2008, but probably it will be $135, maybe $140.”[12] When the laptop started mass production in November 2007, the unit price was estimated to be $188 when bought by thousand units. At the same time, the laptop was made available under the "Give 1 Get 1" program at $199 for a single unit, or $399 for 2 units.

Mary Lou Jepsen was CTO until her resignation at the end of 2007 to found a new company, Pixel Qi, to continue the development and commercialization of ideas from the XO.

Intel was a member of the association for a brief period in 2007. It resigned its membership on 3 January 2008, citing disagreements with requests from OLPC's founder, Nicholas Negroponte, for Intel to stop dumping their Classmate PCs.[3][13]

Ivan Krstić (former OLPC Director of Security Architecture) resigned in late February, 2008 because, he said, learning wasn’t what the OLPC was about even for Nicholas Negroponte (see quote below).[14][15]

On April 22, 2008, Walter Bender, who was the former President of Software and Content for the OLPC project, stepped down from his post and left OLPC to found Sugar Labs. Bender reportedly had a disagreement with Nicholas Negroponte, the pioneer of the project itself, about the future of the OLPC and their future partnerships.[14] Nicholas Negroponte also showed some doubt about the exclusive use of open source software for the project[16] and made suggestions supporting a move towards adding Windows XP which Microsoft was in the process of porting over to the XO hardware.[17] Microsoft's Windows XP, however, is not seen by some as a sustainable operating system.[18] Microsoft announced on May 16, 2008 that Windows XP would be offered as an option on XO-1 laptops and possibly be able to dual boot alongside Linux.[19]

Charles Kane became the new President and Chief Operating Officer of the OLPC Association on May 2, 2008.[20][21]

[edit] Technology

See also: OLPC XO-1, Sugar (GUI), and OLPC XS
OLPC XO-1 laptop.

The XO-1, previously known as the "$100 Laptop" or "Children's Machine", is an inexpensive laptop computer designed to be distributed to children in developing countries around the world,[22] to provide them with access to knowledge, and opportunities to "explore, experiment and express themselves" (constructionist learning).[23] The laptop is manufactured by the Taiwanese computer company Quanta Computer.

The rugged, low-power computers use flash memory instead of a hard drive, run a Red Hat Linux-based operating system and use the Sugar user interface.[24] Mobile ad-hoc networking based on the 802.11s wireless mesh network protocol allows students to collaborate on Activities and to share Internet access from one connection. The wireless networking has much greater range than typical consumer laptops. The XO-1 has also been designed to be lower cost and much longer lived than typical laptops.

Microsoft is developing a modified version of Windows XP and announced in May of 2008 that Windows XP will be available for an additional cost of 10 dollars per laptop.[25]

OLPC XO-2 prototype.

The OLPC project is working on an updated XO (dubbed XO-1.5) that could include a faster processor, better wireless hardware, increased storage capacity and rubber bumpers for added screen protection. It is expected to ship in the first quarter of 2009.[citation needed]

On May 20, 2008 OLPC unveiled its plans for the 2nd generation XO. The XO-2 is targeted for 2010 at the cost of $75. So far only a few details were unveiled. One is that it will consist of two multitouch-sensitive displays, and other is that can be used as a normal laptop (having one of the screens as a keyboard) or an e-book (each screen displaying one page).[26][27][28][29]

[edit] Distribution

[edit] Distribution model

The laptops are sold to governments,[30] to be distributed through the ministries of education with the goal of distributing “one laptop per child”. The laptops will be given to students, similar to school uniforms and ultimately remain the property of the child. The laptops include an anti-theft system which can, optionally, require each laptop to periodically make contact with a server to renew its cryptographic lease token. If the cryptographic lease expires before the server is contacted, the laptop will be locked until a new token is provided. The contact may be to a country specific server over a network or to a local, school-level server that has been manually loaded with cryptographic "lease" tokens that enable a laptop to run for days or even months between contacts. Cryptographic lease tokens can be supplied on a USB key for un-networked schools.[31] The operating system and software is localized to the languages of the participating countries.

[edit] Early deployments

Approximately 500 developer boards (Alpha-1) were distributed in mid-2006; 875 working prototypes (Beta 1) were delivered in late 2006; 2400 Beta-2 machines were distributed at the end of February 2007;[32] full-scale production started November 6, 2007.[33] Around one million units will be manufactured and deployed in 2008.

[edit] Give 1 Get 1 program

The OLPC project had initially stated that no consumer version of the XO laptop was planned.[34] Later, however, the project established the laptopgiving.org website for direct donations and ran a "Give 1 Get 1" offer starting on November 12, 2007 that was initially scheduled to run for only two weeks. The offer was extended until December 31, 2007. With a donation of $399 (plus shipping cost extra) to the OLPC "Give 1 Get 1" (G1G1) program, donors received an XO-1 laptop of their own and had another sent on their behalf to a child in a developing country. The addresses for delivery of the "Get 1" laptop were restricted to the United States, its territories, and Canada.

Some 83,500 donors participated in the program. A significant minority (at least 10%)[35] of these had not received their "Get One" laptop a couple of months after their donation because of order fulfillment and shipment issues within both OLPC and the outside contractors it had hired to manage those aspects of the program. This led many donors to question whether OLPC's management and staff were capable of successfully managing the much larger task of distribution of laptops to the developing world.[36]

[edit] Give 1 Get 1 version 2

As of November 2008, a second G1G1 program is being run through Amazon.com.[37] This partnership was chosen specifically to solve the distribution issues of the prior G1G1 event. In addition, the price to consumers will stay the same, at $399 USD.[38] This program is available in the USA and in 30 European countries. [39]

[edit] Deployment of XO laptops

[edit] Summary of laptop orders

Year Confirmed number (approximate) Date confirmed Purchaser
2007 100,000 October 2007 Uruguay[40][41]
15,000 November 14, 2007 Birmingham, Alabama, United States[42]
260,000 December 1, 2007 Peru[43]
50,000 December 1, 2007 Mexico (Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim)[44]
167,000 January 5, 2008 "Give One, Get One" program[43]
2008 65,000 May 29, 2008 Colombia (Caldas) [45]
+200,000 June 2008 Uruguay[46]
+30,000 October 2008 Peru[47]
+110,000 November 10, 2008 Colombia (Bogota and Cartagena) [48]
10,000 November 10, 2008 Ghana[49]
Total 1,007,000    

Current list of manufactured laptops (see also Google map of OLPC deployments)

[edit] Participating countries

In October 2007, Uruguay placed an order for 100,000 laptops, making Uruguay the first country to purchase a full order of laptops. The first real, non-pilot deployment of the OLPC technology happened in Uruguay in December 2007.[40] Since then, 200,000 more laptops have been ordered to cover all public school children between 6 and 12 years old.

Laptops have been delivered to the following countries, either following an order or as part of the Give One Get One program:

[edit] Countries with Pilot Projects

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, president of Brazil, with a prototype.
In Najmi, Al Muthanna Governorate, Iraq

In addition to pilot projects in the participating countries listed above, pilot projects (from a few dozen to a few hundred laptops) took place or are currently taking place in the following countries (see also Google map of OLPC pilot projects):[53]

[edit] Other interested countries

The following countries have shown interest in the past, but no concrete projects have resulted up to now:

[edit] Criticism

[edit] Controversy regarding mission

OLPC's dedication to "Free and open source" was questioned with their May 15, 2008 announcement that large scale purchasers would be offered the choice to add an extra cost, special version of the proprietary Windows XP OS developed by Microsoft alongside the regular, free and open Linux/Sugar OS. James Utzschneider, from Microsoft, said that initially only one operating system could be chosen. OLPC, however, said that future OLPC work would enable XO-1 laptops to dual boot either the free and open Linux/Sugar OS or the proprietary Microsoft Windows XP. Mr. Negroponte further said that "OLPC will sell Linux-only and dual-boot, and will not sell Windows-only [XO-1 laptops]". OLPC released the first test firmware enabling XO-1 dual-boot on July 3, 2008.[54][55][56][57][58]

OLPC's stated ethos that "It's an education project, not a laptop project" was contradicted according to Ivan Krstić, OLPC's former Director of Security Architecture[59]

I quit when Nicholas told me — and not just me — that learning was never part of the mission. The mission was, in his (Negroponte's) mind, always getting as many laptops as possible out there; to say anything about learning would be presumptuous, and so he doesn’t want OLPC to have a software team, a hardware team, or a deployment team going forward.

—Ivan Krstić, former Director of Security, OLPC, May 13, 2008, [60][15][61]

Mr. Negroponte was asked by an interviewer about this statement:

[Nicholas] Negroponte says he told Krstić no such thing. "That's the opposite of what I told him," he says. "I said we're not promoting a model, we're promoting several models, including some we don't like--such as drill and practice."

—Nicholas Negroponte, June 6, 2008, [62]

Around the same time, Nicholas Negroponte and Charles Kane made statements explaining OLPC's decision to enable XO-1 laptops to dual-boot either open source Fedora or proprietary Microsoft Windows XP:

[Nicholas] Negroponte says that within OLPC, the open-source scrap had become a distraction. "I think that means and ends, as often happens, got confused," he says. "The mission is learning and children. The means of achieving that were, amongst others, open source and constructionism. In the process of doing that, open source in particular became an end in itself, and we made decisions along the way to remain very pure in open source that were not in the long-term interest of the project."

—Nicholas Negroponte, May 2, 2008, [63]

"The OLPC mission is a great endeavor, but the mission is to get the technology in the hands of as many children as possible," [Charles Kane] said. "Whether that technology is from one operating system or another, one piece of hardware or another, or supplied or supported by one consulting company or another doesn't matter."

"It's about getting it into kids' hands," he continued. "Anything that is contrary to that objective, and limits that objective, is against what the program stands for."

—Charles Kane, OLPC President & COO, May 2, 2008, [63]

Other discussions question whether OLPC laptops should be designed to promote anonymity or to facilitate government tracking of stolen laptops. A recent New Scientist article critiqued Bitfrost's P_THEFT security option, which allows each laptop to be configured to transmit an individualized, non-repudiable digital signature to a central server at most once each day to remain functioning.[64]

[edit] Approach

At The World Summit on the Information Society held by the United Nations in Tunisia from November 16-18, 2005, several African officials, most notably Marthe Dansokho of Cameroon and Mohammed Diop of Mali, voiced suspicions towards the motives of the OLPC project and claimed that the project was using an overly U.S. mindset that presented solutions not applicable to specifically African problems. Dansokho said the project demonstrated misplaced priorities, stating that clean water and schools were more important for African women, who, he stated, would not have time to use the computers to research new crops to grow. Diop specifically attacked the project as an attempt to exploit the governments of poor nations by making them pay for hundreds of millions of machines.[65]

Lee Felsenstein, a computer engineer who played a central role in the development of the personal computer, criticized the centralized, top-down, design and distribution of the OLPC, calling it "imperialistic”.[66]

John Wood, founder of Room to Read, emphasizes affordability and scalability over high-tech solutions. While in favor of the One Laptop per Child initiative for providing education to children in the developing world at a cheaper rate, he has pointed out that a $2,000 library can serve 400 children, costing just $5 a child to bring access to a wide range of books in the local languages (such as Khmer or Nepali) and English; also, a $10,000 school can serve 400–500 children ($20–$25 a child). According to Wood, these are more appropriate solutions for education in the dense forests of Vietnam or rural Cambodia.[67]

[edit] Environmental issues

In 2005 and prior to the final design of the XO-1 hardware, OLPC received criticism due to concerns over environmental and health impacts of hazardous materials found in other computers.[68] The OLPC asserted that it aimed to use as many environmentally friendly materials as it can; that the laptop and all OLPC-supplied accessories would be fully compliant with the EU's Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive (RoHS); and that the laptop would use an order of magnitude less power than the typical consumer notebooks available as of 2007, minimizing the environmental burden of power generation.[69]

The XO-1 delivered (starting in 2007) uses environmental friendly materials, complies with the EU's RoHS and uses between 0.25 and 6.5 watts[70] in operation.

[edit] Nigeria

Lagos Analysis Corp., also called Lancor, a Lagos, Nigeria-based company, sued OLPC in the end of 2007 for $20 million, claiming that the computer's keyboard design was stolen from a Lancor patented device.[71] OLPC responded by claiming that they had not sold any multi-lingual keyboards in the design claimed by Lancor,[72] and that Lancor had misrepresented and concealed material facts before the court.[73] In October 2008, the court granted OLPC’s motions to dismiss Lancor's claims. This means all of Lancor's claims against OLPC, Nicholas Negroponte, and Quanta were dismissed.

In 2007, XO laptops in Nigeria were reported to contain pornographic material belonging to children partaking in the OLPC Program.[74] In response, OLPC made plans for adding content filters.[75] The OLPC foundation maintained the position that such issues were societal, not laptop related.[76] Similar responses have led some to suggest the OLPC takes an indifferent stance concerning this issue.[77] According to Wayan Vota Senior Director at Inveneo and founder of the independent OLPC News, "The use of computers to look at porn is [a] social problem, not a hardware one... Children have to be taught what's good and what's bad, based on the cultural context."[78][79]

[edit] India

India's Ministry of Human Resource Development rejected the initiative, saying “it would be impossible to justify an expenditure of this scale on a debatable scheme when public funds continue to be in inadequate supply for well-established needs listed in different policy documents”[80] and later stated plans to make laptops at $100 each for schoolchildren. Two designs submitted to the ministry from a final year engineering student of Vellore Institute of Technology and a researcher from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore reportedly describe a laptop that could be produced for "$47 per laptop" for even small volumes.[81][82]

[edit] Photo gallery

These captions visualize the run of OLPC Thailand pilot (Ban Samkha).

The XO band.

First encounter with the laptops.

Packing the laptop into bag.

Field research.

Parents are intrigued by the machine, especially with the video camera.

Students showing an XO to a local monk.

[edit] See also

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