The '10-dollar, world's cheapest laptop', developed in India has been given a quiet burial with the government placing an order for 250,000 XO laptops from the Nicholas Negroponte-led One Laptop Per Child Foundation.
The '$10, world's cheapest laptop', developed in India has been given a quiet burial with the government placing an order for 250,000 XO laptops from the Nicholas Negroponte-led One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Foundation.
Boston-based One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), a non-profit organisation, is targeting to sell 1 million OLPC XO laptops in India by the end of the current financial year.
The '$10, world's cheapest laptop', developed in India has been given a quiet burial with the government placing an order for 250,000 XO laptops from the Nicholas Negroponte-led One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Foundation.
In fact, both the Classmate PC projects (from Intel) and OLPC pilots (with Reliance Communications) besides low-cost initiatives from players like Novatium, Encore, Xenitis and Allied Computers are gathering momentum independent of each other in the country.
After its successful run in Latin America and some African countries, the US-based non-profit organisation 'One laptop per Child' has launched the programme in India to equip students with specially designed laptap at subsidised rate for better learning. The laptops are unbreakable and water-proof which will make them easy to handle without any risk.
The US-based Nicholas Negroponte-led non-profit organisation, One Laptop per Child (OLPC), is planning to distribute three million XO laptops, each costing Rs 11,000, among children entering schools by the end of 2009.
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