Talk:Development Cooperation Handbook/The video resources linked to this handbook/Episode 2 - MDG 2: Achieve universal primary education

Greetings from the One Laptopschool Per Child - OLPC - community
Bringing knowledge where it is needed is a very old goal and dream. With miniaturisation, mass production, open software, open community, open hardware projects, this resulted in the creation of OLPC who produces a rugged PV powered low cost laptop that can bring all books and more to schoolkids: about 27 euro/year.child including PV panel and you can deliver all the schoolbooks a kid and youngster will ever need during a school career. OLPC is an open community project, just as Linux, the wikipedia, wikibooks. Apart from just being an open community project, we are also all about open software, and most visible: we are also open hardware. Indeed, by using miniaturisation and mass production to drive costs down, OLPC develops and produces a strong, rugged, PV powered, open source and open hardware laptop-tablet to help foster a transformation of society where it is introduced by entering through the kids/ youth and the educational landscape, thus reaching out to the families and bringing society as a whole to a next level. This website is a collaborative website, so create a login and start collaborating, editing and adding the pages.



OLPC is a very small not for profit and makes sure the XO laptop remains in the open and free community landscape, that innovations are continuously integrated and that orders can be placed and shipped. As such, OLPC takes a seat at the table next to the innovators and financiers. OLPC has to offer large orders for a continuous numbers of months of the innovators' technology, which makes the financier prepared to finance the machines the innovator needs to manufacture the technology and reply to OLPC's order. The idea is that whilst producing OLPC's order, the innovator can secure other customers. In exchange for the massive order, OLPC gets access to the most innovative technologies at rock-bottem prices, whilst helping innovations come to market AND straight into the hands of schoolkids first. If there are resources available, OLPC helps promoting the project with governments of the poorest countries first.

OLPC is working along Agenda 21 and Millennium Development Goal nr.2: Bringing Universal Primary Education.
 * 2' video - OLPC Intro part 1
 * 2' video - OLPC Intro part 2
 * 7' video: Prof. Nicolas NEGROPONTE: The impact of an OLPC deployment on teachers, parents, kids, society.
 * 10' video: Transformando! Documentary on a Transforming Social Innovation Project with as ingredients: the energy of kids and their transformational power in families an societies, some top social workers, the solar powered OLPC XO. Watch and be amazed ...

The aim of this educational project, is on one hand to bring Universal Primary Education by 2015 as - anno year 2000 initiated - United Nations Millennium Development Goal nr.2. On the other hand, OLPC's mission is to manage the open-community -, open-hardware - and open-software -project, Open Robotics-project, to bring forward the best possible laptop combination for education: the XO-XServer combination. For this and above approach, - and also a lot of lobbying by the right persons on the right places and time - the United Nations is a Partner in this Open-Community - project! It is the largest educational project undertaken by Humanity ever, and deemed by many as one of the most inspiring projects out there. 2008, saw the first countries with a 100% roll out to all of their kids aged 5 till 15: Peru, Uruguay. By now, several Island States and Rwanda have a 100% deployment too; several more countries and regions have olpc laboratories and test deployments. Every XO can load over 1000 eBooks on its memory and has a choice of +86.000 eBooks available, as well as many (educational) games, all education disciplines covered, etc. etc.. things are moving fast indeed.

More:
 * http://wiki.laptop.org/go/The_OLPC_Wiki
 * http://one.laptop.org/