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Sunday, November 30, 2008
One Laptop Per Child, OLPC, XO laptop, third-world countries, netbooks - Christian Coley, eFluxMedia
One Laptop Per Child is reviving Give One, Get One promotion on Monday in its effort to put affordable, educational notebooks in the hands of third-world children. Basically, if a consumer buys an XO laptop for $400, he will automatically donate a second unit to a child in a developing country. In order to offer the deal, the organization is working with Amazon. Since 2005, OLPC has tried to fulfill its goal of producing a $100 laptop with the idea that technology can rectify e-learning and computer illiteracy issues throughout the world. The organization came as close as $188, but now the laptops carry a $200 price tag because of increased production costs.
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