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Posted by Dan on Dec 20, '07 6:34 PM for everyone

Link: http://www.laptopgiving.org/

This is a really great initiative. You can donate money to help get these energy-efficient, rugged, kid-friendly laptops into the hands of children in developing countries. Check out this video from Scribe Media, where Yves Behar, who designed the physical form of the laptop, talks about its features, capabilities, and reason for existing.

"Now we in the developed world want something that people in the developing world have. I like that idea!" -Yves Behar

Tags: africa, asia, education, sustainability, technology

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barefootmeg wrote on Dec 21, '07

I've heard great things about this computer. I don't know anyone who's actually gotten one, though.

I wonder how it will change the computer market over all.

barefootmeg wrote on Dec 21, '07

i just looked at the website and all the software that it comes with (which is quite a bit, plus there's lots more available for download).

the 50 million dollar question, of course, would be, if i buy one for my kids, would they use it, or have they been spoiled by being able to use my computer?

vilius wrote on Dec 21, '07

my comment.. http://vilius.multiply.com/links/item/78 =]

danbirchall wrote on Dec 28, '07

Okay folks, I did it! Made a donation which is gonna send one of these awesome kid-size laptops to a kid somewhere in Afghanistan, Cambodia, Haiti, Mongolia or Rwanda (I'm rooting for Rwanda, but I don't care too much who gets it), and one just like it to me (which I'll be giving to my daughter).

Multiply's Pezident has done the same... who's with us? Unless they extend the program, it ends the 31st. You can also (if you don't want a slick kid-size laptop for some reason) just donate money to the OLPC Foundation, of course.

danbirchall wrote on Jan 21

Got email today from the OLPC folks!

Mine is in the queue for shipment, and they say I should get another email by Wednesday with an anticipated delivery date. :)

danbirchall wrote on Jan 31

Well, a couple emails from them later...

"Please accept my apologies for the delay in receiving your XO laptop. Give One Get One was such a phenomenal success that we over-taxed our order processing and payment systems. Demand exceeded supply.

Additional XO laptops are being built now and will be delivered in 45 to 60 days."

Okay, I can live with that timeframe. Would have liked to get it in February so I could give it to my daughter in March, but if I get it in March, I can at least get it to her in time for her birthday in June.

danbirchall wrote on Mar 24

It came :)

Now to see about getting it to her!

(I'm typing this on it actually)

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