For a five year old, the collaborative learning communication environment and the really expressive and intuitive user interface changes the game on what they’re able to do in classroom. They can all share a painting on the same canvas on their laptop or go and sit under a tree, download a book and read it in beautiful back and white high resolution in bright sunlight.
— interview with Jeff Waugh by Stan Beer, iTWire
Barry Vercoe will be speaking on Friday, May 16th about the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project, its success around the world, and the opportunity for OLPC among communities throughout the region. In addition to his involvement in the OLPC project in the USA, Barry is a board member of the newly-formed OLPC Australia which will focus on the needs of children in Australia and the Pacific.
Come and see the OLPC XO devices on display, and find out how you can get involved in OLPC Australia!
- Event: Barry Vercoe on “One Laptop per Child: Empowering children and communities”
- Date: Friday, May 16th
- Time: 6pm to 7pm
- Location: Mitchell Theatre, Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts, 280 Pitt Street, Sydney
- Cost: Free
- RSVP: Please RSVP for catering purposes. Some refreshments will be provided.
A big thank you to the Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts for hosting the event.
The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project is gearing up to launch an Australian branch in the coming months and working to lobby the Government to fund programs in local communities. […] Right now, OLPC Australia is conducting trial programs across the country to prepare for a hopeful launch of June or July.
— Low cost OLPC program heads down under by Ashley Clark, iTnews Australia
The One Laptop Per Child initiative has set up shop in Australia with a local board planning to lobby State and Federal governments to fund a roll-out into local communities. […] Based in Sydney, the OLPC Australia board will also co-ordinate efforts to bring the organisation’s low-cost XO laptops - designed for needy children aged six to 11 - into other Pacific territories such as Papua New Guinea.
— Low-cost laptop group lands in Australia by Asher Moses, smh.com.au
The only way Professor Negroponte can realise his dream is by having cheap laptops, costing $100, or eventually, less. How is this done? And what difference do these computers make in the villages of Africa, South America and Asia? Professor Negroponte, founder of the Media Lab at MIT and author of the bestseller Being Digital, talks to an audience in Boston, Massachusetts.
— transcript and audio from The Science Show on Radio National
James Cameron works for a computer company in support for enterprise Linux customers, and is deeply immersed in electronics, radio and software engineering. For the past two years Cameron has devoted his diverse technical talents to testing the wireless network component of the One Laptop Per Child project.
— Coming to a watering hole near you: OLPC’s mesh networking by Andrew Hendry, Computerworld
February 12, 2008 – 5:02 pm
FROM his hot, dusty, locust-plagued property in the NSW outback, a software engineer who goes by the name Quozl is doing his bit to help educate 1.5 billion of the world’s poorest children. James Cameron has spent the past two years testing prototypes of a low-cost robust laptop called XO designed especially for children in developing countries.
— Farmer gives low-cost laptop a proper field test by Sherrill Nixon, smh.com.au
February 2, 2008 – 3:43 am
Australia is set to get its very own OLPC arm, to deliver XO laptops to schoolchildren across the country. The first hints of the Australian launch surfaced at linux.conf.au in Melbourne, with the organisation hoping to build support for the project amongst the open source community.
— OLPC laptops set to hit Australia by Suzanne Tindal, ZDNet.com.au
February 1, 2008 – 12:18 pm
The One Laptop Per Child initiative, a charity which is attempting to create and distribute educational laptops to disadvantaged children, is on its way to Australia. OLPC Australia was unveiled at the Linux.conf.au open source conference this week.
— One Laptop per Child on its way to Australia by Sarah Stokely, The Open Source Report
