OLPC United States
| 2007 status: green | ||||
| green | ||||
Entered the list of 'green' countries through the news announcement of 2007-04-28 (which can be found in the archive) and states:
3. OLPC added a new country this week: the USA. This move will engage a wider developer community, impacting and improving software and content. Please note that such a move into schools and learning in the USA is not necessarily a commercial machine.
Maine and Georgia have similar programs using conventional laptops. As Governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney called for XOs in MA schools. This is not part of his presidential campaign.
States
Please add yours if there is an active effort there.
California
I don't know whether CA is talking to OLPC, but I have started talking to politicians here. Assemblyman Ira Ruskin has a bill to fund a pilot project to encourage use of Free Textbooks in CA junior colleges. --Mokurai 17:49, 6 July 2007 (EDT)
Georgia
Said to have a program.
it dosent have a proram i go to school in georgia
Maine
Said to have a program using Apple iBooks.