The value of culture

XVI.4 July + August 2009
Page: 52
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UNDER DEVELOPMENTOne year of experiences with XO laptops in Uruguay


Authors:
Pablo Flores, Juan Hourcade

Nicholas Negroponte launched the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Foundation in 2005 with the goal of providing poor children with low-cost laptops designed to enhance the learning process. While much of the press about OLPC has focused on the cost of the laptops, their design incorporates many novel elements in both hardware and software [1]. In some ways OLPC may be the largest experiment in the history of human-computer interaction. Yet apart from minor exceptions [2], little is known about the project and its progress aside from press releases and reports from OLPC. Here, we describe how Uruguay, one…




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