The One Laptop Per Child foundation presents the final design for the OLPC sub-$100 Tablet with a 8″ 1024×768 capacitive LCD touch screen, a touch screen optimized version of Sugar Linux. The thin screen protector doubles as a solar charger. Once countries order millions of these, the price can definitely be below $100.

• OLPC XO-3 tablet revealed (slashgear.com)
• OLPC outs XO 3.0 tablet at last, will make its debut at CES (engadget.com)
• One Laptop Per Child XO 3.0 tablet to be showcased at CES 2012 (ubergizmo.com)
• OLPC XO-3 Tablet to Debut in CES 2012 (devicemag.com)
• OLPC XO 3.0 tablet to show at CES with Android, Sugar (electronista.com)
• OLPC’s XO-3 Tablet Lands at CES (hothardware.com)

Interview with Yves Behar, the designer of the OLPC XO-1, about design, about technology, business, non-profit, consumer electronics design philosophy.

After a repressive history, Uruguay’s left-wing government is paving the way for a new generation of digital-savvy, globalised nationals by being the first country to give every child their own laptop.

Ex-guerilla fighter, Jose Mujica, has been in office since 2010. He has never given up his ideals of social justice. The aim of the ambitious ‘A laptop per child’ program is to help close the divide between rich and poor, and between developed and developing countries. Many parents and teachers were initially sceptical; years without proper social policies still shape life in the slums.”I don’t want to know anything about computers. It is a child who knows something about computers and technology that throws bombs.” Yet despite early scepticism, the program is now being widely embraced. “We need to educate the children differently so that they understand the world of today.”

Watch it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aVE1-7ZZOM

Uruguay pioneers global educational initiative

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I got to play with the new Marvell Armada PXA618 powered One Laptop Per Child XO-1.75 laptop during the ARM Technology Conference. It seems to already be very stable and run very fast, although this is still a beta prototype, with beta software, OLPC, Red Hat, Marvell still have some work to do to optimize the software and complete the hardware so that it can be mass produced and shipped to children around the world starting early next year. Here in this video I walk around with it outdoors for a few minutes and show you some of how it looks like.

She’s the manager of Learning at One Laptop Per Child, she provides some insights into how the Laptops can be measured to be successfully deployed to children in schools around the world.

Giulia D’Amico is currently the Director of Business Development, EU Affairs and Africa at One Laptop per Child Association in Miami.

He now works at Google, he worked on the Sugar software of the OLPC project.

Daniel Drake is working on deploying OLPC all over the world. He provides technical support, training the local technical teams, how to repair laptops, how to setup the school servers and more.

Christoph Derndorfer is the managing editor at the unofficial http://olpcnews.com website and SJ Klein is the director of outreach, community content coordinator at One Laptop Per Child.

Craig Perue launched the OLPC Project in Jamaica, currently reaching two schools with about 95 laptops, but preparing to be able to bring all the Children of Jamaica access to this project if only they can find funding.

Nancie Severs started a small laptop deployment in a remote village in Vietnam. They currently are about to have 18 laptops in that village. Find more information at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Vietnam

David Cosimano presents the Lego for One Laptop Per Child project, it’s an app that works on the XO Laptop, that allows for the children to send commands to Lego motors and constructions to make those Lego’s do fun things, in some ways, this is a big like creating a Lego robot.

He went to Haiti to help an OLPC deployment with the power and battery system.

Carol Ruth Silver talks about the OLPC Afghanistan project, how it was funded in a small manner in 2009 and 2010 but isn’t being funded right now. We should be sending laptops to the Afghan Children instead of only sending military don’t you agree?

Tuukka Hastrup from Finland consults for FLOSS Manuals, a collaborative manual and document writing software.

Students from the Illinois Institute of Technology are building solar power for OLPC projects in Haiti.

The idea is to be able to transmit data over large areas using short waves when there might not be internet. Here he is transmitting text over sound.

E-Toys is presented by Yoshiki Ohshima, one of the creators of the E-Toys app for the OLPC Laptop project.