No Laptop Left Behind 一台笔记本也不能少
Nicholas Negroponte is the founder and chairman of One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), a not-for-profit educational organization. Negroponte is on leave from MIT, where he's the cofounder and director of the MIT Media Lab. A pioneer in the field of computer-aided design and a member of the MIT faculty since 1966, Negroponte is also the author of the 1996 bestseller "Being Digital《走向数码》 ," which has been translated into more than 40 languages.
Beyond the classroom, Negroponte has been working for years to make education a reality for the children of the developing world. With OLPC, he's assembled the leading computer hardware, software, industrial design, manufacturing, and distribution resources to make the best possible laptop at the lowest possible cost, and is distributing it as widely as possible to children in developing countries as an educational tool.
Negroponte has said that "OLPC is an education company, not a computer company." The introduction of the eye-catching, Internet-enabled, rugged computers, called XO Laptops (which are designed for effective use in bright sunlight and with limited power), has literally transformed villages in Africa. "Once the kids have the XO, it unleashes their creativity and accelerates their learning. It has also led to immediately greater school attendance, since kids want to be part of it."
Mass production of the XO machines has just started. "The first kids just got their laptops in Peru and Mexico," Negroponte said. "We're only making about 5,000 a week now, but we hope to make a million a month next year. In laptop-land, where everyone in the world combines to make 5 million laptops a month, this is a big number." When asked why he chose to make OLPC a nonprofit, Negroponte said, "Being a nonprofit leads to exceptional clarity of purpose for everyone involved, and purity of interactions with governments around the world. There isn't a head of state that won't take a meeting on this, which they certainly would not do if we were a for-profit company."
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