One laptop per child
The OLPC organization s a charity, whose aim is to supply laptops to children in undeveloped countries that will allow 
better education. Most of the 2 billion children in this developing world are inadequately educated, and the consequences are profound as they fail to find jobs, leaving them poor and subsequently malnourished among the other atrocities that occur within these countries.
The laptop, which is the central part of their aim, will be essentially a learning device, that will be usable for children. It has been designed to be ultra-low cost, power efficient, durable and responsive so the children can leapfrog the decades of development and have a radically transformed future.
The laptop contains the ability to form a mesh network, and this allows the children to contact each other, their teachers and the Internet from even the remotest locations. It also has a 7.5 inch, 1200×900 pixel, TFT screen which can be usable with just a staggering 0.2 watts. The fact that the laptop easily uses less than 2 watts means it can be powered manually, perfect as many of these children do not have an electricity supply, and through solar energy. The estimated lifetime is 5 years, lengthened by the durable qualities that the laptop needs to, and does, have
The basic specifications are listed:
- CPU: x86-compatible processor with 64KB each L1 I and D cache;
- CPU clock speed: 433 Mhz;
- ISA compatibility: Support for both the MMX and 3DNow! x86 instruction-set extensions; Athlon instruction set (including MMX and 3DNow! Enhanced) with additional Geode-specific instructions;;
- DRAM memory: 256 MiB dynamic RAM;
- Mass storage: 1024 MiB SLC NAND flash, high-speed flash controller
These are very good specifications (for under $100 which it will be) and they will surely have a real impact on the children’s lives which of course is the most important thing.
Popularity: 4% [?]
If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!
What a wonderful thing to do with laptops for all the “under” nations of the world. How about this… lets provide laptops for the”under the poverty line” children in this country and improve the ability of our children here in the Great U S A to become the achievers of their generation with technology the rest of the kids have in this country provided by their parents and lessen the gap from the “haves” and the “have nots.” We can do this here, get it down really good, then take it to the world. What ever happened to taking care of your own first. It seems that all the peoples of the world need help with something, ours are no execption. The vast resources sent to far reaching parts of the world is great, but I sure would like to see the children here who do not have computers in the home and need the technology to surive in school, get them. Let’s help them first.