Name: One Laptop per Child
Uploaded: 2006-08-01T00:11:00Z
Duration: 17 min 23 s
Description: Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the MIT Media Laboratory, describes how the One Laptop Per Child project will build and distribute the "$100 laptop."

Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the MIT Media Laboratory, describes how the One Laptop Per Child project will build and distribute the "$100 laptop."

One Laptop per Child

Boldly aiming to empower every child, a nonprofit set out to deliver affordable, internet-enabled laptops to millions worldwide. In a Cambodian village without electricity or phones, children used laptops as their brightest source of light and their first connection to the internet. The initiative targets large-scale production and distribution, bypassing traditional profit and sales models to keep costs low. Designed as a tool for real learning, the project reimagines education as self-driven, playful, and accessible—the way children naturally learn.

Transforming Global Education With One Laptop Per Child

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Nicholas Negroponte: One Laptop per Child