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% About OLPC: About One Laptop per Child
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One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is a project started by Nicholas Negroponte
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a core of MIT
Media Lab personnel. The organization has grown to include passionate
people creating software and hardware and sustainable community
involvement to fulfill the educational mission of OLPC.

The mission for OLPC is simple yet compelling: To create educational
opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child
with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and
software designed for collaborative, joyful, and self-empowered
learning.

You can learn more about OLPC at [http://laptop.org](http://laptop.org)
and [http://wiki.laptop.org](http://wiki.laptop.org) -- everyone is
welcome to participate.

![image](images/About_OLPC-resized_600x163_olpclogo.jpg )
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> © Anne Gentle 2008
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> adam hyde 2008
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> A Holt 2008
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> Rob Mason 2008
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> Sandy Culver 2008
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> Tom Boyle 2008