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One Laptop Per Child is an organization founded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It is a non-profit organisation. It wants to make cheap laptops so that children in less rich countries without as much technology can also use a computer to learn. The laptop is called an XO. It has an operating system called sugar based on GNU/Linux. It also can run Windows.[1]
Formation | January 2005 |
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Type | Non-profit |
Headquarters | Cambridge, Massachusetts |
Official language | Multilingual |
Chairman | Nicholas Negroponte |
Key people | Charles Kane, Seymour Papert, Alan Kay |
Website | www.laptop.org |
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