OLPC orders kick of and Buy one Gift one Free (BOGOF) is reaping benefits

This from engadget. All steam ahead for the OLPC Foundation, which recently received an order from Peru for 260,000 of the little XO laptops. Also news is that Mexican billionaire and Negroponte's chum Carlos Slim has purchased 50,000 for his country. That's against a background of $2 million sales a day on the Give One, Get One program. Clearly, the OLPC Foundation is the most successful program out there for getting laptops into the hands of schoolchildren.

now my own thoughts the BOGOF campaign is a rweally interesting model why dont we add a premium for other health orientated projects say $5.00 or more as well as the kit.

The OLPC may not be in everybody's view the right model but at least they are giving it a go.

One lap top per child I picked up the mesh network from a OLPC bought along by Rose Luckins colleagues to Handheld

This is a screen captutre showing my laptop picking up the mesh networking signal from a One Laptop Per Child machine bought to handheld learning by a colleague of Rose Luckins from London Knowledge lab. Cool eh !!

Intel and $100 laptop join forces

Intel and One Laptop per Child project join up. No comment either way but huge heads up to both organisations for helping drive the agenda on. Both the organisations and hopefully the worlds children will benefit. So good on you both !! see my earlier posts on olpc by searching using my tag cloud,

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6897950.stm

Mesh technology to geeky for some but watch the technology

I have been following mesh technology for providing coverage connectivity for a while. The one laptop per child project has pushed it a long way with the help of the gods of mesh at MIT view this highly technical pdf poster on one of there trials http://web.media.mit.edu/~ypod/DL_May07.pdf

Plus the link to to the orielly site on emerging telephony http://www.oreillynet.com/etel/blog/2007/05/mits_olpc_pushes_bounds_of_mes.html

Better stop pretending I am not a geek .

One laptop per Child moving into top gear

I was lucky enough to meet Mary Lou Jepsen at Mlearn2006 in Alberta I sat down next to her at breakfast !!!Mary is a leading part of the one laptop per child project team .It has the weirdest homepage but its the initiative that everybody has talked about knocked praised and it really is beginning to happen. http://www.laptop.org/index.shtml

they're is some really long but good video on the project at http://1laptop1student.blogspot.com/2007/04/olpc-tech-talk-w-google.html

some really interesting results of trialling in Nigeria

And from karlfich blog
a great quote for those that said they would'nt do it

Oh, and they're hoping to ship 10 million of them this year, 50-100 million next year.

Move over XBOX 360 as biggest product roll out in history

Plus my own thought mesh technology is the future !!!