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msgid "lang"
msgstr "en"

msgid "xml:lang"
msgstr "en"

msgid "description"
msgstr "Most of the nearly two-billion children in the developing world are inadequately educated. It is time to rethink this equation. Given the resources that poor countries can reasonably allocate to education."

msgid "keywords"
msgstr "OLPC, One Laptop per Child, laptop, education, poverty, children isolation, learning, schools, teachers, books, school equipment, developing world, computer, knowledge, potential."

msgid "copyright"
msgstr "Content is available under <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/">Creative Commons Attribution 2.5</a>"

msgid "skiplink"
msgstr "Skip to content"

msgid "logo"
msgstr "back to home page"

msgid "vision"
msgstr "vision"

msgid "visionlink"
msgstr "link to vision"

msgid "mission"
msgstr "mission"

msgid "missionlink"
msgstr "link to mission"

msgid "progress"
msgstr "progress"

msgid "progresslink"
msgstr "link to progress"

msgid "news"
msgstr "news"

msgid "newslink"
msgstr "link to news"

msgid "people"
msgstr "people"

msgid "peoplelink"
msgstr "link to people"

msgid "laptop"
msgstr "laptop"

msgid "laptoplink"
msgstr "link to laptop"

msgid "hardware"
msgstr "hardware"

msgid "hardwarelink"
msgstr "link to hardware"

msgid "software"
msgstr "software"

msgid "softwarelink"
msgstr "link to software"

msgid "interface"
msgstr "interface"

msgid "interfacelink"
msgstr "link to interface"

msgid "design"
msgstr "design"

msgid "designlink"
msgstr "link to design"

msgid "foundation"
msgstr "participate"

msgid "foundationlink"
msgstr "link to participate"

msgid "purpose"
msgstr "purpose"

msgid "purposelink"
msgstr "link to purpose"

msgid "program"
msgstr "program"

msgid "programlink"
msgstr "link to program"

msgid "participate"
msgstr "participate"

msgid "participatelink"
msgstr "link to participate"

msgid "propose"
msgstr "propose"

msgid "proposelink"
msgstr "link to propose"

msgid "children"
msgstr "children"

msgid "childrenlink"
msgstr "link to children"

msgid "olpcwiki"
msgstr "OLPC wiki"

msgid "olpcwikilink"
msgstr "link to OLPC wiki"

msgid "career"
msgstr "career"

msgid "careerlink"
msgstr "link to career"

msgid "contact"
msgstr "contact"

msgid "contactlink"
msgstr "link to contact"

msgid "sitemap"
msgstr "site map"

msgid "sitemaplink"
msgstr "link to site map"

msgid "altlogo"
msgstr "logo: one laptop for child"

msgid "December"
msgstr "December"

msgid "November"
msgstr "November"

msgid "October"
msgstr "October"

msgid "September"
msgstr "September"

msgid "August"
msgstr "August"

msgid "July"
msgstr "July"

msgid "June"
msgstr "June"

msgid "May"
msgstr "May"

msgid "April"
msgstr "April"

msgid "March"
msgstr "March"

msgid "February"
msgstr "February"

msgid "January"
msgstr "January"

msgid "designedby"
msgstr "Designed by"

msgid "poweredby"
msgstr "Powered by"

#: vision.html

msgid "visiontitle"
msgstr "Vision: Children in the developing world are inadequately educated"

msgid "leftsidebar"
msgstr "mission"

msgid "picture1"
msgstr "gif"

msgid "visionp1"
msgstr ""It's an education project, not a laptop project.;quot; &mdash Nicholas Negroponte"

msgid "visionp2"
msgstr "Our goal: To provide children around the world with new opportunities to explore, experiment and express themselves. [[http://www.laptop.org/vision/mission/ read more]]"

msgid "visionleftsidebar1"
msgstr "progress"

msgid "picture2"
msgstr "gif"
 
msgid "visionp3"
msgstr "The project's origins go back more than four decades to the early days of computing, when most machines were still the size of small dinosaurs, and almost no one dreamed they would ever be suitable for children. But pioneering thinkers like Seymour Papert disagreed sharply, and over time led the long march from radical theory to reality proving the immense power of the personal computer as a learning tool for children. <a href="http://www.laptop.org/vision/progress/">view timeline</a>"

msgid "visionrightsidebar1"
msgstr "news"

msgid "picture3"
msgstr "gif"

msgid "visionp4"
msgstr "The laptop generates a steady stream of international press coverage. Click below for the OLPC latest news, as well as for an extensive print and electronic press archive. <a href="http://www.laptop.org/vision/news/">read more</a>"

msgid "visionrightsidebar2"
msgstr "people"

msgid "picture4"
msgstr "gif"

msgid "visionp5"
msgstr "OLPC was founded by Nicholas Negroponte with a core of Media Lab veterans, but quickly expanded to include a wide range of exceptionally talented and dedicated people from academia, industry, the arts, business, and the open-source community. Each individual involved brings a unique skill set, and a deep personal passion, to the project. <a href="http://www.laptop.org/vision/people/">read more</a>"



#: mission.html
msgid "missiontitle"
msgstr "Mission: Provide children around the world with new opportunities to explore"

msgid "missionh1"
msgstr "mission"

msgid "missionp1"
msgstr "Most of the nearly two—billion children in the developing world are inadequately educated, or receive no education at all. One in three does not complete the fifth grade."

msgid "missionp2"
msgstr "The individual and societal consequences of this chronic global crisis are profound. Children are consigned to poverty and isolation—just like their parents—never guessing what the light of learning could mean in their lives. At the same time, their governments struggle to compete in a rapidly evolving, global information economy, hobbled by a vast and increasingly urban underclass that cannot support itself, much less contribute to the commonweal, because it lacks the tools to do so."

msgid "missionh2"
msgstr "It is time to rethink this equation."

msgid "missionp3"
msgstr "Given the resources that poor countries can reasonably allocate to education—sometimes less than $20 per year per pupil, compared to the approximately $7500 per pupil spent annually in the U.S.—even a doubled or redoubled national commitment to traditional education, augmented by external and private funding, would not get the job done. Moreover, experience strongly suggests that an incremental increase of "more of the same"—building schools, hiring teachers, buying books and equipment—is a laudable but insufficient response to the problem of bringing true learning possibilities to the vast numbers of children in the developing world."

msgid "missionh3"
msgstr "Standing still is a reliable recipe for going backward."

msgid "missionp4"
msgstr "Any nation's most precious natural resource is its children. We believe the emerging world must leverage this resource by tapping into the children's innate capacities to learn, share, and create on their own. Our answer to that challenge is the XO laptop, a children's machine designed for "learning learning."" 

msgid "missionp5"
msgstr "XO embodies the theories of constructionism first developed by MIT Media Lab Professor Seymour Papert in the 1960s, and later elaborated upon by Alan Kay, complemented by the principles articulated by Nicholas Negroponte in his book, <i>Being Digital<\i>."

msgid "missionp6"
msgstr "Extensively field-tested and validated among some of the poorest and most remote populations on earth, constructionism emphasizes what Papert calls "learning learning" as the fundamental educational experience. A computer uniquely fosters learning learning by allowing children to "think about thinking", in ways that are otherwise impossible. Using the XO as both their window on the world, as well as a highly programmable tool for exploring it, children in emerging nations will be opened to both illimitable knowledge and to their own creative and problem"solving potential."

msgid "missionp7"
msgstr "OLPC is not, at heart, a technology program, nor is the XO a product in any conventional sense of the word. OLPC is a non-profit organization providing a means to an end—an end that sees children in even the most remote regions of the globe being given the opportunity to tap into their own potential, to be exposed to a whole world of ideas, and to contribute to a more productive and saner world community."

msgid "missionh4
msgstr "Until then, stay tuned."

#: progress.html

msgid "progresstitle"
msgstr "Progress: Discover the origins of OLPC"

msgid "progressleftsidebar1"
msgstr "What's coming..."

msgid "progressp1"
msgstr "B2-Test machines deployed to children in launch countries."

msgid "progressh1"
msgstr "progress"

msgid "progressn37"
msgstr "The origins of OLPC stretch back more than four decades to the primordial days of computing, when most machines were still the size of small dinosaurs and next to no one imagined they had any connection to children. Pioneer thinkers such as Seymour Papert dreamed they would be suitable for children, and time has proved the immense power of the personal computer as a learning tool. Some of the key milestones in One Laptop per Child's long march from radical theory to reality..."

msgid "2007"
msgstr "2007"

msgid "progressn36"
msgstr "Rwanda starts out the New Year with a bang by announcing that it, too, will participate in OLPC."

msgid "2006"
msgstr "2006"

msgid "progressn35"
msgstr "Uruguay commits to OLPC."

msgid "progressn34"
msgstr "875 B1-Test machines roll off the Quanta assembly-line in Shanghai. XO is for real."

msgid "progressn33"
msgstr "Libya announces it has signed up for 1.2 million laptops, one for every school-age child in the nation."

msgid "progressn32"
msgstr "OLPC has an Arabic-speaking launch country."

msgid "progressn31"
msgstr "Red Hat and Pentagram present the user interface for the laptop. SES-Astra joins OLPC."

msgid "progressn30"
msgstr "First working prototype of the dual-mode display is unveiled."

msgid "progressn29"
msgstr "Wikipedia becomes first source of content for the laptop."

msgid "progressn28"
msgstr "500 developer boards are shipped worldwide. <a href="http://csounds.com/whatis/index.html">Csound</a> is demonstrated over the mesh network."

msgid "progressn27"
msgstr "Nortel and eBay become members. $100 School Server is announced."

msgid "progressn26"
msgstr "Squid Labs and FreePlay present first human-powered systems for the laptop."

msgid "progressn25"
msgstr "OLPC opens its offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Noted industrial designer Yves Behar takes charge of form-factor issues."

msgid "progressn24"
msgstr "Marvell joins OLPC and partners on network hardware for the laptop. The <a href="http://www.laptop.org">OLPC</a> goes live (domain courtesy of Mohamed Rostom)."

msgid "progressn23"
msgstr "Negroponte and Kemal Dervis, head of the <a href="http://www.undp.org/">UN Development Program (UNDP)</a>, sign a memo of understanding at the <a href="http://www.weforum.org/en/index.htm">World Economic Forum</a>. The planned OLPC Gen-1 launch remains focused on 5–10 million laptops in large countries or regions. Over time, UNDP will serve as OLPC's ground force in many of the 166 countries in which it has offices, assisting with everything from communications with ministries to logistics for school rollout."

msgid "2005"
msgstr "2005"

msgid "progressn22"
msgstr "OLPC announces that Quanta Computers, the world's largest maker of laptops,  will become the ODM for the laptop."

msgid "progressn21"
msgstr "At the World Symposium on the Information Society in Tunis, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan presents OLPC's latest iteration, the so-called green machine, with its distinctive pencil-yellow hand crank. At a jammed press conference with Negroponte, Annan breaks the handle. Time for a design review."

msgid "progressn20"
msgstr ""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"

msgid "progressn19"
msgstr "Two weeks later, President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria declares himself "enchanted" by the $100 laptop and commits his country to one million units."

msgid "progressn18"
msgstr "After meeting in Bangkok with Negroponte, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra announces that Thailand will adopt OLPC, the first country officially to do so. Unfortunately for Shinawatra, he would later be deposed by a military coup in September 2006."

msgid "progressn17"
msgstr "Negroponte reports to a partners' meeting at Google headquarters that more than 50 countries have now inquired about the laptop. Twenty of the queries came from heads of state. BrightStar is introduced as a partner."

msgid "progressn16"
msgstr "Design Continuum becomes OLPC's industrial-design partner."

msgid "progressn15"
msgstr "Brazilian President Lula da Silva meets with Negroponte and Papert in Brasilia, where he embraces the $100 laptop for Brazil. So that Brazil can move forward, President Silva gives his cabinet officers just 29 days to set an agenda, he says, because "anything longer than 30 days is uninteresting.""

msgid "progressn14"
msgstr "First meeting of corporate partners at the Media Lab. Members include AMD, News Corp., Google, and Red Hat, which will create a Linux-based operating system for the laptop."

msgid "progressn13"
msgstr "Negroponte sketches out his idea for a $100 laptop for the poor children of the world in an e-mail to his old friend, Hector Ruiz, CEO of AMD. Six hours later, Ruiz replies: "Count us in, and we would be delighted to take a lead role here." Within weeks, News Corp. and Google also join as founding members of the newly formed program, One Laptop per Child."

msgid "progressn12"
msgstr "Later in the month, Negroponte presents the idea for the $100 laptop at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where the political, economic, and cultural elite of the world&quote; gather each year. Although he has nothing to show his audience but a simple mock-up with no functioning parts, the machine makes a big splash. John Markoff writing for <i>The New York Times</i>, calls Negroponte "the Johnny Appleseed of the digital era."" 

msgid "2002"
msgstr "2002"

msgid "progressn11"
msgstr "Govenor Angus King of the state of Maine is persuaded by Papert that "one-to-one is the only meaningful ratio for deploying computers to school children," and launches the first <a href="http://www.papert.org/articles/laptops/laptops_master.html">large-scale, saturation distribution 42,000 of laptops</a>—to all of the state's seventh-graders. The program is later renewed and expanded."


msgid "progressn10"
msgstr "Negroponte provides 20 children in a small, remote Cambodian village with connected laptops; for their individual use at school, at home, and in the community. He will add 20 more the following year. The children and their families quickly innovate multiple uses for the machines and easily teach themselves to navigate the Internet. Their first English word? "Google.""

msgid "1998"
msgstr "1998"

msgid "progressn9"
msgstr "Lego debuts its Mindstorms™ as a product with which children build "programmable bricks" into their constructions."

msgid "1995"
msgstr "1995"

msgid "progressn8"
msgstr "In his influential <i>Being Digital</i>, Negroponte paints a picture of the future of personal computing. The book becomes an international best-seller and is translated into 40 languages."

msgid "1988"
msgstr "1988"

msgid "progressn7"
msgstr "Working with the Omar Dengo Foundation in Costa Rica, Papert and a team from the Media Lab help design and implement a constructionist program that includes the training of a dozen Costa Rican teachers at MIT. The self-sustaining program is instrumental in moving Costa Rica away from economic dependence on agricultural exports toward a technology-based economy."

msgid "progressn6"
msgstr "<a href="http://web.media.mit.edu/~mres/papers/BCK/BCK.html">LEGO/Logo</a> launches as a commercial product with which kids connect their robotic constructions to a personal computer with a cable."

msgid "1985"
msgstr "1985"

msgid "progressn5"
msgstr "The <a href="http://www.media.mit.edu/">MIT Media Lab</a> opens its doors. Its mission, in part, is to "invent and creatively exploit new media for human well-being without regard for present-day constraints.""

msgid "progressn4"
msgstr "Papert opens "The School of the Future," a multi-year, high-density computer project at The Hennigan Elementary School in Boston, Massachusetts. The children work primarily with Logo. Hennigan will also become a pilot test site for the Media Lab's LEGO/Logo project."

msgid "1982"
msgstr "1982"

msgid "progressn3"
msgstr "In a French government-sponsored pilot project, Papert and Negroponte distribute Apple II microcomputers to school children in a suburb of Dakar, Senegal. The experience confirms one of Papert's central assumptions: children in remote, rural, and poor regions of the world take to computers as easily and naturally as children anywhere. These results will be validated in subsequent deployments in several countries, including Pakistan, Thailand, and Colombia."

msgid "1980"
msgstr "1980"

msgid "progressn2"
msgstr "Papert publishes <i>Mindstorms: Children, Computers and Powerful Ideas</i>, a popular guide to his theories of constructionism and computing for kids."

msgid "1968"
msgstr "1968"

msgid "progressn1"
msgstr "Alan Kay describes his proto-laptop, the Dynabook, as "a portable interactive personal computer, as accessible as a book.""

msgid "1967"
msgstr "1967"

msgid "progressn0"
msgstr "Wally Feurzeig, Daniel Bobrow, Richard Grant, Cynthia Solomon, and Seymour Papert introduce Logo, the first programming language written especially for children."

#: news.html

msgid "newstitle
msgstr "News: Discover the OLPC latest news..."

msgid "newsh1"
msgstr "news"

msgid "newsp1"
msgstr "The Laptop generates a steady stream of international press coverage that promises to flow even deeper and faster as we move toward launch of our Gen-1 machines later this year."

msgid "newsh2"
msgstr "OLPC has No Plans to Commercialize XO Computer."

msgid "newsp2"
msgstr "January 12, 2007, <a href="http://www.laptop.org/vision/news/january_12_2007.shtml">read more</a>"

msgid "newsh3"
msgstr "OLPC Announces First-of-Its-Kind User Interface for XO Laptop Computer."

msgid "newsp3"
msgstr "January 3, 2007, <a href="http://www.laptop.org/vision/news/january_03_2007.shtml">read more</a>"

msgid "newsh4"
msgstr "Rwanda Commits to One Laptop per Child Initiative."

msgid "newsp4"
msgstr "January 3, 2007, <a href="http://www.laptop.org/vision/news/january_03b_2007.shtml">read more</a>"

msgid "newsh5"
msgstr "Low Cost Laptop Could Transform Learning."

msgid "newsp5"
msgstr "December 31, 2006, <a href="http://www.laptop.org/vision/news/december_31_2006.shtml">read more</a>"

msgid "newsrightsidebar1"
msgstr "media coverage"

#: people.html

msgid "peopletitle"
msgstr "People: Discover persons who bring their personal passion to OLPC project"

msgid "peoplename1"
msgstr "Nicholas Negroponte"

msgid "peoplerank1"
msgstr "Chairman"

msgid "peoplep1"
msgstr "Nicholas Negroponte is founder and chairman of the One Laptop per Child non-profit organization. He is currently on leave from MIT, where he was co-founder and director of the MIT Media Laboratory, and the Jerome B. Wiesner Professor of Media Technology."

msgid "peoplename2"
msgstr "Antonio Battro

msgid "peoplerank2"
msgstr "Chief Education Officer"

msgid "peoplep2"
msgstr "Considered a world leader in the new field of neuroeducation, Antonio Battro is an MD and PhD who specializes in the development of basic cognitive and perceptual processes in children and adolescents."

msgid "peoplename3"
msgstr "Walter Bender"

msgid "peoplerank3"
msgstr "President, Software and Content"

msgid "peoplep3"
msgstr "Walter Bender is a founding member and former executive director of the Media Lab. He attended Harvard University, where he received his BA, before earning his MS from MIT."

msgid "peoplename4"
msgstr "Michail Bletsas"

msgid "peoplerank4"
msgstr "Chief Connectivity Officer"

msgid "peoplep4"
msgstr "As former director of computing at the MIT Media Lab, Michail Bletsas designed and deployed most of their Internet network infrastructure systems. His research has since evolved to develop broadband Internet access to underserved areas."

msgid "peoplenamep5"
msgstr "David Cavallo"

msgid "peoplerank5"
msgstr "Director, Central and South America"

msgid "peoplep5"
msgstr "David Cavallo is the co-head of the Media Lab's Future of Learning research group, which focuses on the design and implementation of new learning environments and on the design of new technologies to change the way we think about "learning" and &quot.school"."

msgid "peoplename6"
msgstr "Jim Gettys"

msgid "peoplerank6"
msgstr "Vice President, Software Engineering"

msgid "peoplep6"
msgstr "With extensive knowledge and background in software engineering, Jim Gettys' interest in open-source systems for education on very inexpensive computers led him to One Laptop per Child."

msgid "peoplename7"
msgstr "Khaled Hassounah"

msgid "peoplerank7"
msgstr "Director, Middle East and Africa"

msgid "peoplep7"
msgstr "After working in close collaboration with large organizations in the U.S., India, the Middle East and China, Khaled Hassounah's interest are now focused on developing technological solutions for underdeveloped countries."

msgid "peoplename8"
msgstr "Mary Lou Jepsen"

msgid "peoplerank8"
msgstr "Chief Technology Officer"

msgid "peoplep8"
msgstr "Mary Lou Jepsen is a pioneer in developing display technologies, and has earned worldwide recognition as a top innovator in the field of LCoS systems. She has contributed to many breakthroughs, including the largest hologram in the world."

msgid "peoplename9"
msgstr "Charles Kane"

msgid "peoplerank9"
msgstr "Chief Financial Officer"

msgid "peoplep9"
msgstr "Chuck Kane has acquired a wealth of experience at a number of respected organizations, including Aspen Technology, Corechange, Inc., Open Text, Inc. and Deloitte and Touche."

msgid "peoplename10"
msgstr "SJ Klein"

msgid "peoplerank10"
msgstr "Director of Content"

msgid "peoplep10"
msgstr ""

msgid "peoplename11"
msgstr "Ivan Krstić"

msgid "peoplerank11"
msgstr "Director, Security Architecture"

msgid "peoplep11"
msgstr "An accomplished software architect and researcher, Ivan Krstić is currently on leave from Harvard University. Krstić is deeply involved with open-source and free software, and specializes in architecture and security of large distributed systems."

msgid "peoplename12"
msgstr "Nia Lewis"

msgid "peoplerank12"
msgstr ""

msgid "peoplep12"
msgstr ""

msgid "peopleh1"
msgstr "advisors"

msgid "peoplep20"
msgstr "Rebecca Allen, Howard Anderson, José María Aznar, V. Michael Bove, Jr., Benjamin Mako Hill, William Kolb, Alan Kay, Ayo Kusamotu, Rodrigo Mesquita, Eben Moglen, Seymour Papert, Bruce Parker, Mitchel Resnick, Ted Selker, Larry Weber, and Barry Vercoe"

#: participate.html

msgid "participatetitle"
msgstr "One Laptop per Child Foundation, Invest your money and your time"

msgid "participateleftsidebar1"
msgstr "purpose"

msgid "picture1"
msgstr "gif"

msgid "participatep1" 
msgstr "Learn about the mission of the OLPC Foundation, its organization and leadership. <a href="http://www.laptopfoundation.org/purpose/">read more</a>"

msgid "participateleftsidebar2"
msgstr "program"

msgid "picture2"
msgstr "gif"

msgid "participatep2"
msgstr "See the kinds of programs under consideration by the Foundation <a href="http://www.laptopfoundation.org/program/">read more</a>"

msgid "participaterightsidebar1"
msgstr "participate"

msgid "picture3"
msgstr "gif"

msgid "participatep3"
msgstr "Get involved with the One Laptop per Child program by investing in one or more program and volunteering your services. <a href="http://www.laptopfoundation.org/participate/">give a gift</a>"

msgid "participaterightsidebar2"
msgstr "propose"

msgid "picture4"
msgstr "gif"

msgid "participatep4"
msgstr "Go here to propose a Special Laptop Program or Grassroots Learning Initiative <a href="http://www.laptopfoundation.org/propose/">read more</a>"


#: purpose.html

msgid "purposetitle"
msgstr "Purpose: The OLPC Foundation is a tax-exempt, social-benefit organization"

msgid "purposeh1"
msgstr "purpose"

msgid "purposeh2"
msgstr "Mission"

msgid "purposep1"
msgstr "The OLPC Foundation's mission is to stimulate local grassroots initiatives designed to enhance and sustain over time the effectiveness of XO laptops as learning tools for children living in lesser-developed countries."

msgid "purposeh3"
msgstr "Organization"

msgid "purposep2"
msgstr "The OLPC Foundation is a tax-exempt (501c3) social-benefit organization chartered in the State of Delaware and headquartered at One Cambridge Center, Cambridge Massachusetts, 02142."

msgid "purposeh4"
msgstr "Board"

msgid "purposebullet1"
msgstr "Nicholas Negroponte, Chairman"

msgid "purposebullet2"
msgstr "Richard Rowe, President"

msgid "purposebullet3"
msgstr "Ashton Hawkins, Secretary"

msgid "purposebullet4"
msgstr "Robert D. Fadel"

msgid "purposebullet5"
msgstr "Calestous Juma"


#: program.html

msgid "programtitle"
msgstr "Program: Enhance learning among children in lesser-developed countries — OLPC Foundation"

msgid "programh1"
msgstr "The Foundation's Program — focus on grassroots innovations"

msgid "programp1"
msgstr "The mission of the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) movement is to ensure that all school-aged children in the developing world are able to engage effectively with their own personal laptop, networked to the world, so that they, their families and their communities can openly learn and learn about learning."

msgid "programp2"
msgstr "The OLPC Association focuses on designing, manufacturing and distributing XO laptops to children in lesser developed countries, initially concentrating on those governments that have made commitments for the funding and program support required to ensure that all of their children own and can effectively use a laptop."

msgid "programp3"
msgstr "Initially the OLPC Foundation is focusing on the grassroots, "bottoms-up" aspects of the OLPC mission. It provides grants and loans for the development and use of open educational resources and grassroots learning innovations that enhance the effectiveness of the XO in lesser developed communities around the world for children, their families and communities."

msgid "programp4"
msgstr "This can include proposals such as:"

msgid "programindenta"
msgstr "(a) Online, open-source, wiki-textbooks, math and science projects, dictionaries, geographies, histories, social studies, health and nutrition courses, and translations into indigenous languages. These materials can be customized for a particular region or group of children or for more general use throughout the XO world;"

msgid "programindentb"
msgstr "(b) Software applications not otherwise available on XO that will enhance the general usefulness of XO's in every location. This could be, for example, educational games; collaborative and archiving tools; or artistic, video and graphic tools;"

msgid "programindentc"
msgstr "(c) Peripherals that will increase the effectiveness of the XO. These may include a variety of manual battery chargers and low-cost USB peripherals that extend the ways the XO can be used to benefit children, their families and their communities; and"

msgid "programindentd"
msgstr "(d) Organizational capacity building innovations that will enhance children's learning by improving their broader learning environment and/or by enabling them to become acquainted with, and interact with, children from different countries and cultures."

msgid "programp5"
msgstr "All materials and peripherals developed with OLPC Foundation support must follow open source formats and standards and be available without fee for use by any child with an XO laptop."

msgid "programp6"
msgstr "The deadline for applications for the first round of Grassroots Innovations is 31 May 2007. Applicants will be informed no later than 30 June concerning the status of their proposal. Applicants need to understand that at this point OLPC and the OPLC Foundation are severely limited in the number of such programs they can support. Those who wish to apply for such a Grassroots Learning Innovations, need to go to the link below and fill out the application."

msgid "programp7"
msgstr "<a href="http://www.vikingdev.com/grassroots/index.php?a=1">Go to Application for Grassroots Innovation Proposal</a>"


msgid "programh2"
msgstr "Special Laptop Program"

msgid "programp8"
msgstr "The Foundation is in the process of raising funds that will enable it, in the future, to subsidize the cost of XO laptops to groups of children who will not be provided XO's by governments because of the special nature of their circumstances."


msgid "programp9"
msgstr "Examples of these exceptional cases include programs for refugee children, for children in isolated parts of a country who are not included in a government program and for children living in exceptionally poor countries. Support for such Special Laptop Programs will be dependent upon funding from outside sources that can be used for this purpose."

msgid "programp10"
msgstr "Because of the limitations of the Foundation's current funding and because of the importance of ensuring highly effective content and support for the initial phases of this program, the Foundation is not accepting applications for the funding of Special Laptop Programs at this point. It is hoped that this program can be activated before the end of 2007."

#: participate.html

msgid "participatetitle"
msgstr "Participate: Invest your money and your time in OLPC project"

msgid "participateh1"
msgstr "Contribute"

msgid "participatep1"
msgstr "The One Laptop per Child Foundation is supported by individuals, businesses and foundations. Contributions large and small are greatly appreciated and will be used to support grassroots learning innovations throughout the lesser-developed world. Contributions may be sent to: "

msgid "participateaddressline1"
msgstr "OLPC Foundation"

msgid "participateaddressline2"
msgstr "One Cambridge Center"

msgid "participateaddressline3"
msgstr "Cambridge Massachusetts, 02142"

msgid "participateaddressline4"
msgstr "U.S.A."

msgid "participatep2"
msgstr "<a href="http://www.vikingdev.com/contribute/">or for credit card contributions</a>"

msgid "participateh2"
msgstr "OLPC Foundation Volunteer Service"

msgid "participatep2"
msgstr "The primary mission of the OLPC movement is to ensure that every school-aged child in the lesser-developed parts of the world owns their own personal laptop that they can use to learn and to learn about learning."

msgid "participatep3"
msgstr "As a part of its mission, the OLPC Foundation maintains a Web-based listing of individuals and organizations who are prepared to contribute their services and/or products in support of children in XO laptop programs throughout the world."

msgid "participatep4"
msgstr "All activities undertaken as a result of contacts made through this OLPC Foundation Volunteer Service must be done on a strictly volunteer basis and all intellectual property generated as a part of this Service will be considered in the public domain and therefore not subject to any royalty or copyright fees. Volunteers may not charge a fee for the time, effort invested or ideas generated as a part of this service. In exceptional cases, volunteers may be reimbursed for direct out-of-pocket expenses, but only on the basis of prior written agreements with the related program(s). An executed, electronic copy the agreement must be provided in advance to the OLPC Foundation."

msgid "participatep5"
msgstr "The information provided in all applications will be reviewed and, if appropriate, will be posted on the OLPC Foundation Website. {You may be contacted.}"

Msgid "participateclickbox"
Msgstr "top of form"

msgid "participatep6"
msgstr "I have read the above terms and conditions of the OLPC Foundation Volunteer Service and agree that any service or product that I provide through this Service will be subject to these terms and conditions."

msgid "participatep7"
msgstr "<a href="http://www.vikingdev.com/volunteer/index.php?read=1&a=1">Go to Application for OLPC Volunteer Service</a>"

#: propose.html

msgid "proposetitle"
msgstr "Propose: Special OLPC Programs and Grassroots Learning Intiatives"

##middle section of this page is already done under Participate: Program##

msgid "proposerightsidebar1"
msgstr "grassroots learning innovations"


#: children.html

msgid "childrentitle"
msgstr "Children: Children actively engage in knowledge construction"

msgid "childrenleftsidebar1"
msgstr "exploring"

msgid "picture1"
msgstr "gif"

msgid "childrenp1"
msgstr "The XO gives learners opportunities they have not had before. Tools such as a Web browser, rich media player, and e-book reader bring into reach domains of knowledge that are otherwise difficult-or impossible-for children to access."

msgid "childrenleftsidebar2"
msgstr "expressing"

msgid "picture2"
msgstr "gif"

msgid "childrenp2"
msgstr "The XO helps children build upon their active interest in the world around them to engage with powerful ideas. Tools for writing, composing, simulating, expressing, constructing, designing, modeling, imagining, creating, critiquing, debugging, and collaborating enable children to become positive, contributing members of their communities."

msgid "childrenrightsidebar1"
msgstr "learning"

msgid "picture3"
msgstr "gif"

msgid "childrenp3"
msgstr "The XO takes learners beyond instruction. The are actively engaged in a process of learning through doing. Children also learn by teaching, actively assisting other learners."

msgid "childrenrightsidebar2"
msgstr “resources”

msgid "picture4"
msgstr "gif"

msgid "childrenp4"
msgstr "The XO not only delivers the world to children, but also brings the best practices of children and their teachers the to world. Each school represents a learning hub; a node in a globally shared resource for learning."