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The One Laptop per Child non-profit develops a low-cost laptop—the "XO Laptop"—to revolutionize how we educate the world's children. Our mission is to provide educational opportunities for the world's most isolated and poorest children by giving each child a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop; and software tools and content designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning. OLPC has produced XO laptops for more than 3 million children around the world, the majority of them in Uruguay, Peru, Rwanda, Haiti, Australia, Mongolia and the United States. These laptops all run Sugar and Fedora Linux, and have customized software and content builds developed by their national deployment teams in collaboration with OLPC staff. We maintain a regular update of deployment information.

+ Software  XO 13.2.11 2020-01-29 XS xs-0.7 2012-02-20

Quote of the Day "This is not just a matter of giving a laptop to each child, as if bestowing on them some magical charm. The magic lies within -- within each child, within each scientist, scholar, or just plain citizen in the making. This initiative is meant to bring it forth into the light of day."   —Kofi Annan

Current projects The Contributors program offered free XO laptops to developers and content creators who are working on projects that will benefit deployments worldwide. To apply for this program, contributors submitted a description of the work they are planning along with their contact information. Read more about our deployments, the latest sugar release and the new XO-4 Touch laptop, or other projects. Follow our news and submit new stories. To suggest your own project, submit a project proposal directly.

Kofi Annan and Jeff Sachs visit students in Bonsaaso, Ghana

School break at the pilot in Arahuay, Perú

OLPC project in Ethiopia

Get Involved

This Wiki contains project pages describing work and ideas related to OLPC. Learn how to get involved with those already in progress. You can also ask other community members about ways to contribute.

See our latest community news and accomplishments.

Overviews

Activities  ·  Support  ·  Community Forum  ·  XO Handbook ⁺

There are overview pages dedicated to hardware, software, education and content. The XO's iconic software interface, Sugar, has its own human interface guidelines, here and on the Sugar Labs wiki. There are also discussion pages on issues of deployment and country-specific discussions.

OLPC is designed around five core principles — Child Ownership, Low Ages, Saturation, Connection, and Free and Open Source tools, and each of these have their own portal sections as well.

Start of mass production at Quanta

News and updates

Weekly news    ·    OLPC Planet   ·    News archive ⁺

• Persistent developer key firmware released October 2021 to disable the security systems,
• A build of Android for the XO-4 is available, see Android,
• A community project for using XOs as class or school servers has begun, please get involved, see XS Community Edition,
• The XO Learning Tablet debuted in July, 2013.
• The XO-4 Touch laptop entered production in February, 2013.
• 2012 brought our global community summit Oct 19-21 and follow-on implementers' San Francisco Sugarcamp++ Oct 22-24 -- all were invited to both events!
• The XO-1.75 laptop entered production in February, 2012.
• Uruguay became the first country in the world to achieve one laptop per child, when its President Tabaré Vázquez handed out 400,000 XOs to the remaining school children on October 13, 2009.
• For general news, see some of the OLPC news aggregators, including planet.laptop.org, the OLPC blog, and the independent OLPCNews blog.

OLPC Rwanda launches at Kagugu Primary School in Kigali

Laptops are introduced in Mongolia