One Laptop per Child

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One Laptop per Child NetEvents December 2, 2006
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1. Learning Learning 2. Teaching is only one
way 3. Leverage children themselves
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What is One Laptop Per Child ?
1. A non-profit entity with 25M funding
for non-recurring engineering costs 2.
About scale, scale, scale being global is
crucial launch 3-5 million in 2007
50-150 million 2008 gt5 large
diverse countries 3. To provide to
children to own, to take home, to use
seamlessly
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Partners AMD News Corp Google Brightstar Red
Hat Nortel Marvell eBay
Quanta Chi Mei SES/Astra Citigroup Real
Networks Seagate Adobe United Nations IADB
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500 Mhz AMD x86 processor 128M DRAM 512M FLASH lt2
W nominal, can be human powered 3 USB
ports Stereo sound, with 2 audio out WiFi mesh
network Rugged Dual mode display Camera, full
resolution and video
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Launch countries Argentina
Brazil Libya Nigeria Thailand In
discussion with China, Pakistan, Turkey,
Mexico, Bangladesh, Palestine, Uruguay and
Central American States as a group
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Laptop price commitment 100 target price end
of 2008 Price will float based on
currency, memory, nickel, cobalt 148
anticipated in 2007 constantly lowering 50
target price in 2010 Gray market issues
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Economics Initial and launch Central
government funded Single big orders Subsequentl
y One country paying for another
Child-to-child funding Commercial
subsidy Micro-philanthropy .etc.

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Summary and side effects Linux on the
desktop No caps lock key Power
consciousness, more human power No bloated
software, stop featuritis Viral
telecommunications Peer to peer
everything Learning by doing