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Welcome to the OLPC Wiki, a collaborative site about the One Laptop per Child (www.laptop.org) project and related communities. We currently have 9,909 pages;

About One Laptop per Child

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One Laptop Per Child is actually a project about the transformation of education. It's really about giving children who don't have the opportunity for learning that opportunity. So it's about access, it's about equity, and it's about giving the next generation of children in the developing world a bright and open future.
Walter Bender, OLPC President of Software and Content
Interview, 24 Apr 2007

The mission of the One Laptop per Child association is to develop a low-cost laptop—the "$100 Laptop"—to revolutionize how we educate the world's children. Our goal is to provide children around the world with new opportunities to explore, experiment, and express themselves.

Why do children in developing nations need laptops? 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 all children to learn learning through independent interaction and exploration.

OLPC espouses five core principles:

Child Ownership: I wear my XO like my pair of shoes.
Low Ages: I have good XO shoes for a long walk.
Saturation: A healthy education is a vaccination, it reaches everybody and protects from ignorance and intolerance.
Connection: When we talk together we stay together.
Free and Open Source: Give me a free and open environment and I will learn and teach with joy.

What's new


School deployments

Development

  • Dan Bricklin has been working on SocialCalc for the XO Laptop. You can follow his

progress here.

  • Hilaire Fernandes has prepared a new XO bundle for DrGeoII and improved the usability of DrGeo on the OLPC machine.
  • Mary Lou Jepsen has been posting safety and inspection certificates on the Hardware Testing page.

In the news

How to get involved

OLPC is driven and supported by its community of thousands of participants, creators, and educators. If you want to get involved, you can dive in and start contributing ideas to this wiki, or learn how to participate or develop in more detail.

If you have and interesting idea or project, or want to start a local OLPC group, you can request an XO through our contributors and developers program. You can also emulate our Sugar environment on your PC.

While most of the opportunities to get involved are though our community, there are also a few specific current job openings.

Learn more

For more background information, see our frequently asked questions (FAQ) and Support FAQ, Ask OLPC a Question.

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. An extended table of contents is also available.

About this wiki

This wiki is a tool for the community, to share information about their work and projects, to exchange ideas and get feedback from passers-by, and to provide shared space for people working on many aspects of education to discuss how to improve education and build informed communities through better collaboration and connection.

Related essays and projects are welcome here, from technical to epistemological. Every page invites comments; you can discuss pages via the discussion tab found at the top of each page. If you are new to wikis, see Wiki getting started for a tutorial. For good wiki style, and guidelines for editing, see OLPC:Wiki. Please make an account and join us.

Pages with the green {{OLPC}} banner at the top—such as this one—are maintained by the OLPC team and representative of the current state of the project; other pages may be slightly less up-to-date. You are welcome to edit and add information to OLPC-maintained pages.