OLPC:Press room

Press releases

Released by OLPC

These releases came through the Racepoint Group, OLPC's dedicated pro bono PR firm.

• 2008-08-06 : One Laptop per Child expands its presence in Asia with project leads in India and China
• 2008-05-20 : One Laptop per Child frames the next generation of the revolutionary XO laptop, with a lighter dual-touchscreen design.
• 2008-05-15 : Microsoft Windows XP is now available on the XO laptop
• 2008-05-03 : One Laptop per Child appoints Charles Kane as President and Chief Operating Officer
• 2008-01-07 : One Laptop per Child Giving Campaign Raises $35 Million in 2007
• 2007-12-12 : The Kite Runner Inspires Gift Through One Laptop
• 2007-12-05 : Peru launches OLPC with 40,000 laptops, starting with one-classroom schools across the country.
• 2007-12-04 : Birmingham, Alabama commits to One Laptop per Child, with a pilot of 15,000 laptops across the city.
• 2007-11-24 : The Holiday Season Starts with Giving One Laptop
• 2007-10-29 : OLPC wins a bid to provide 100,000 laptops to children in Uruguay, to be overseen by the Uruguayan CEIBAL project
• 2007-10-22 : One Laptop per Child creates the world's "greenest" laptop computer
• 2007-06-11 : Mass Production of XO's begins! at Quanta's Chinese facilities.
• 2007-01-03 : OLPC Announces First-of-Its-Kind User Interface for XO Laptop Computer