OLPC Sri Lanka

2007 status: orange
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The OLPC Lanka Foundation was established in early 2008 as a non-profit organisation, to deploy 1000 XO laptops previously known as the $100 Laptop or Children's Machine, through 9 schools in Sri Lanka. In collaboration with the Ministry of Education, it is facilitating the roll out of the revolutionary machines, under the aegis of the World Bank. The laptop is developed by the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) social welfare organisation headed by the project's founder Nicholas Negroponte.

OLPC in Sri Lanka

The OLPC mission of saturating the island’s nine regions requires private sector participation to acquire the necessary numbers of XO laptops and have secured funding for an additional 250 units for piloting in schools around the primary pilots. This deployment is scheduled to be completed by the end of February 2009 and is to be closely monitored by both MoE and World Bank officials. The mission of the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) movement is to enable all school-aged children in the developing world to engage effectively with their own personal laptop, networked to the world, so that they, their families and their communities can openly learn.

OLPC News

• Dec 15, 2008 OLPC Teacher Training at University of Colombo School of Computing.