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The One Laptop per Child association is developing 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 poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning."

Take part in our winter giving program : give a laptop to a child in the developing world, and get one for someone in the US or in other countries.
Laptops are a window and a tool: a window into the world and a tool with which to think. They are a wonderful way for children to learn learning through independent interaction and exploration.

Get Involved

Anyone can participate in OLPC and many already do. To introduce yourself, consider:

We'll be happy to help you find ways to contribute or to assist you with your own ideas, so please try us!

If you prefer to start participating by reading or by doing, rather than by talking, then the participation page is for you.


Learn more

You can read more and discuss new ideas about hardware, software, education and content; The XO's interface, Sugar, has its own human interface guidelines. There are also discussion pages on issues of deployment and country-specific discussions.

Our five core principlesChild Ownership, Low Ages, Saturation, Connection, and Free and Open Source.


What's new



  • OLPC launched its second Give One, Get One ("G1G1") program on November 17, 2008, following last year's popular program which supported the production of over 150,000 XOs. This year the XO laptops will be shipped to donors through Amazon.com, and the program includes Europe. Visit laptop.org/xo.