Our mission is to bridge the digital divide.We bring technology to African children to help them enrich their communities and provide them with a better future.  We empower communities through the knowledge and access to information. New opportunities are now possible with learning technology adapted for children. We provide technology to assist children and teachers in the most marginalized communities to make a difference one laptop at a time

What We Do

Learning Takes a Giant Step

This is not just a laptop project. This is a revolutionary learning campaign to empower children and teachers in the most marginalized communities. Classrooms are transformed into dynamic learning communities, students and teachers into engaged learning partners.

The OLPC XO laptop provides low cost portable digital educational tools and content. This project targets communities where there is limited access to libraries and information, and where the schools are poorly equipped and funded.

Accelerate Learning with the XO

In the OLPC project in Arahuay school reading comprehension improved from 0% to 27%. Pedagogical results were: Immediate; Integrated; Reduced absenteeism.

Achieve Millennium Development Goals

To meet United Nations Millennium Development Goals in the areas of education, poverty eradication, and sustainable development communities, this technology is a critical building block. The Millennium Development goals explicitly seek to address the digital divide for countries where there is little technology infrastructure. The XO design minimizes the necessary infrastructure and lowers the energy requirements.

"Shared projects hold great power to engage and inspire creative effort. Projects shared across a small group help children to discover their own capacity for teaching and learning. Those shared across a group of thousands have the power to create tools, artifacts, and resources with a diversity, specificity, and comprehensiveness that could not otherwise exist. Until recently, the simple costs of publication and distribution have made the sharing of locally created projects and learning materials beyond a single school prohibitive. Networks of XOs, and the publishing tools that come with them, will make possible the development and free sharing of learning materials customized to every locale and culture."

<excerpted from Countries Report OLPC Foundation>

OLPC Worldwide
www.wiki.laptop.org

This website contains many references and quotes from projects already deployed by other partners of the OLPC Foundation. The evidence is overwhelming. More information is available in the countries page of  www.wiki.laptop.org/countries.

Knowledge and Learning

Messages the OLPC Foundation

"XO provides children with new ways to derive knowledge from what is around them -- ways to record and to try things out, as well as ways to share, compare, and shape the ideas and work of others. This collaboration should be transparent, with the history of contributions and commentary, and each child's own history of contributions, given a primary place in descriptions of any work. At many levels, from clusters of laptops to digital libraries at schools, OLPC tools for creating, storing, and finding content are designed to make sharing easy.

OLPC also aims to provide access to libraries of knowledge, ideas, experiments, and art that others have created and attempted, as a window into the world and as examples and references on which to build.

As children study new areas and add new ideas and experiments, they will be able to update the knowledge they share with those around them. Networks of laptops and school servers provide a platform for sharing both existing knowledge and new ideas. Our focus is on how these networks will be used to create and discover new things, and to build new communities of learning."