One Laptop Per Child Project Gives To Get

September 27th, 2007

The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project that seeks to put computers in the hands of children in developing nations has announced a new twist: “Give 1, Get 1.”The two-week program is designed to persuade individuals from the United States and Canada to support the OLPC Foundation and its work by paying for two children’s laptop computers — one to give, one to get. The laptop that participants give will go to a child in a developing nation. They can use the one they get for themselves or they can give it away.

The goal of the Give 1 Get 1 program is to generate awareness of the educational value of the XO laptop, encourage the open-source software community to create content to support the XO laptop, and put more XO laptops into the hands of kids around the world. The two-week promotion runs from November 12 through November 26, 2007.

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