One Laptop per Child (OLPC), a non-profit organization with the
goal of providing children in developing nations with laptop
computers, today announced that it will team with the United Nations
Development Programme (UNDP) to host an Open House event during the
World Economic Forum on Friday at the Panorama Hotel Promenade in
Davos, Switzerland.
The event will allow invited guests and media to experience a room
full of XO laptops and view demonstrations by children and OLPC staff.
Corporate sponsors of the event and OLPC supporters include AMD,
Google and News Corporation.
What: World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2007 Premiere Event: One
Laptop per Child Open House
Where: Panorama Hotel Promenade 80 CH-7270 Davos Platz,
Switzerland
When: January 26, 2007 from 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. GMT
About One Laptop per Child
One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is a non-profit organization created
by Nicholas Negroponte and others previously at the MIT Media Lab to
design, manufacture and distribute laptop computers that are
sufficiently inexpensive to provide every child in the world access to
knowledge and modern forms of education. The laptops will be sold to
governments and issued to children by schools on a basis of one laptop
per child. These machines will be rugged, open source, and so energy
efficient that they can be powered by a child manually. Mesh
networking will give many machines Internet access from one
connection. The pricing goal will start near $100 and then steadily
decrease.
