Comments on: ONE LAPTOP PER CHILD by FuseProject

By: macarena

macarena — Fri, 14 May 2010 16:27:49 +0000

please email me please i need a laptop to use please do it.

By: tomjyi

tomjyi — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 03:46:18 +0000

yes i want to get by one give a lapto to a child of afrika

By: ajay jangid

ajay jangid — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:26:29 +0000

really appriciable

By: Joanna

Joanna — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 03:54:53 +0000

The point of the Wi-Fi is not completely to gain access to the “World Wide Web” but for the kids to be able to network with each other. This system enables students to talk to each other and their teachers without needing access to the Internet, which is probably lacking in many of the areas these will be distributed.

By: Greg

Greg — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 22:24:50 +0000

If you study Peak oil at all and realize it’s implications you’ll realize that a laptop like this is going to not only help the third world. But it could very well be the last and more energy efficient devices in a new small footprint post oil and fossil fuel world. We need to start thinking smaller footprint and reduce our energy usage in the rich countries as well. I bought two of them.

By: Inhabitat » ONE LAPTOP PER CHILD Buy-One-Give-One STARTS TODAY!

Inhabitat » ONE LAPTOP PER CHILD Buy-One-Give-One STARTS TODAY! — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 08:16:45 +0000

[...] of design with a conscience that combines social priorities with great, sexy, sustainable design. We’ve written about the XO laptop before, and love that it’s becoming widely available to kids across the globe. So get movin’ [...]

By: Inhabitat » $100 XO Laptop Launches Buy One/Donate One Initiative

Inhabitat » $100 XO Laptop Launches Buy One/Donate One Initiative — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 18:31:14 +0000

[...] great example of design with a conscience that combines social priorities with great, sexy design. We’ve written about the $100 laptop before, and love that it’s becoming widely available to kids across the [...]

By: Scrapsessions.com » Oh I love Mondays!!

Scrapsessions.com » Oh I love Mondays!! — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 14:10:44 +0000

[...] need your feedback about this laptop for children. Check this. I am thinking about buying that for Abby for Christmas. It costs $400 for two laptops. One [...]

By: Yuff

Yuff — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 03:11:26 +0000

Ya how about giving them food instead or housing

By: Sky Nyx

Sky Nyx — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 05:14:19 +0000

This project is awesome.

It gives the kids access to a broader pespective of the world from where they come from, of what could be achieved with education and knowledge.

By: CHRIS MBADUGHA

CHRIS MBADUGHA — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 23:58:55 +0000

Interested in exploring the posibility for this product to be introduced in West Africa.

By: Mathieu NONGNI

Mathieu NONGNI — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 14:46:37 +0000

It’s with pleasure that i discover such a project in Euro news in my TV set this morning. I jump from my desk and have and exclamation! Finally our schools in rural areas where there is no electricity supply and modern commodities would finally learn about New Tchnologies of Communication and computer literacy.
I wonder if one day scools from Cameroon in faraway villages where there is no TV signal would nKnow what is a computer.
We believe that this project would help us in some of our projects which is to fill he gap between schools in urban area and those in rural area as far is computer science is concerned

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:46:50 +0000

At one time, copies of books were handwritten. Then, the Gutenberg Press was invented. At the time, an educated and wealthy person may have thought “Why does it matter to the poor that we can now print books. The poor can’t read anyway and plus they have many other problems.” However, the Gutenberg Press helped move the Renaissance along at a feverish pace. Ideas were published which in turn were read by others and they helped create more ideas that were published. In time, the standard of living was improved for many poor people in Europe because religion, science, law, economics, art and many other areas were profoundly changed. The standard of millions of families were improved from one generation to the next. If you look at the poor today, they could in time follow a similar course of improving themselves through communication, knowledge and ideas. In time, they may open e-commerce business, become programmer, or find many other ways to earn a living that none of us can even imagine.

So, I don’t see the $100 laptop as the end all to proverty. The laptop technology and communication infra-structures in poor countries will need to continue to improve over time. I am sure some will steal and strip the computers for parts. Others will be used for more sinister uses. But, it’s an important step to begin helping the poor take matters into their own hands. To help them think differently, to communicate more freely with each other, and hopefully in time improve their future.

By: Inhabitat » INTERVIEW: YVES BEHAR ON SUSTAINABILITY

Inhabitat » INTERVIEW: YVES BEHAR ON SUSTAINABILITY — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 18:43:18 +0000

[...] designer behind the One Laptop Per Child Project, Yves Behar is truly a world-class designer, balancing aesthetics, function, and socially-based [...]

By: Inhabitat » YVES BEHAR LED LEAF LAMP

Inhabitat » YVES BEHAR LED LEAF LAMP — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 17:00:40 +0000

[...] a huge fan of Mr. Behar’s design for the One Laptop Per Child, but despite the Leaf lamp’s innovative grid-based use of LEDs and heat dissipation system, [...]

By: Sydney

Sydney — Mon, 21 May 2007 17:22:09 +0000

I was wondering how you would get one of these laptops right now is it even possible to get one right now because my daughter and her friends at school have been talking about them a lot. They’re school’s computers go slow and most of the kids going to her school dont have computers at home so they have to use the computers at school and it is not a big help if the computers at school go extremly slow, So i was going to buy Matilda and a couple of her friends someof these laptops

Sincerly,
Sydney

By: vb

vb — Fri, 04 May 2007 02:48:04 +0000

how do yu buy 1

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 16:14:31 +0000

I really like the idea of an inexpensive LapTop for every child, but what about “One Hunded Dollars to every Child”. How can this be done, you ask?
Sell the LapTops to people or corporations that can afford them for $200.00. They in turn sponsor a child some where in the world. XO receives their $100.00 for the LapTop and a very deserving child receives $100.00 to help them. You know this is still a band aid fix to these suffering kids. Expand this idea a little further, let’s say the sponsor keeps sponsoring this child and possibly this child’s family with whatever monetary help that they can when they can and in turn get others involved and they do the same. I see on TV all the time where preachers and others are always soliciting money to help these poor kids, but how much of these funds are actually going to the people and places after all the expenses are paid to: 1. Preachers and Evangelists
2. Paid workers 3.TV Networks 4. And theft… just to name a few. Since we can endow these kids with LapTops and Internet service, we can now introduce them to bank accounts of their own and get funds or donations to them directly, thus cutting out the middle man and starting a system of commerce in these areas. Since we are creating commerce we are at the same time creating distribution hubs, stores, all types of jobs and hopefully some system that will start self dependency.
I know some people will say this will never work, but I think that it can. I know that there are a lot of details that would have to worked out, but I think that with the right people involved, any thing is possible.
Remember, GOD is Good Always!!!

By: Cj

Cj — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 19:15:21 +0000

its just awsome! and nothing less.

By: Inhabitat » NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS from Yves Behar

Inhabitat » NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS from Yves Behar — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 18:35:08 +0000

[...] Yves Behar is the founder of San Francisco-based FuseProject, a visionary industrial design and brand strategy firm that has designed and produced such engaging products as the XO Laptop for the One Laptop Per Child program. While not necessarily dubbed as a “green designer,” Mr. Behar’s commitment to a thorough, responsible design process and socially-conscious projects like OLPC demonstrate his committment to thoughtful, thorough design. [...]