Negroponte takes OLPC to Colombia

Thirty one countries in total are involved, and in the case of Uruguay, half the children already have them, and by the middle of 2009, every single child in Uruguay will have a laptop a little green laptop.

The XO 1 is the first laptop to have been awarded an EPEAT Gold level rating.

For example, the OQO UMPC is also a PDA sized tablet PC the Apple eMate had the clamshell form factor of a laptop, but ran PDA software.

So in the three years since I talked at TED and showed a prototype, it's gone from an idea to a real laptop.

A portable computer (discontinued) is a general purpose computer that can be easily moved from place to place, but cannot be used while in transit, usually because it requires some setting up and an AC power source.

And these kids had their laptops. But it was really what spirited this, plus the influence of Joe and others. We started One Laptop per Child.

As a result, floppy drives became uncommon in desktop personal computers since about 2000, and were dropped from many laptop systems even earlier.

The backs of seats are often equipped with a fold down tray for eating, writing, or as a place to set up a portable computer, or a music or video player.

The country reportedly became the first in the world where every primary school child received a free laptop on 13 October 2009 as part of the Plan Ceibal (Education Connect).

Designer Yves Behar digs up his creative roots to discuss some of the iconic objects he's created . Then he turns to the witty, surprising, elegant objects he's working on now including the 100 laptop.

He did do it. The tender had nothing in it that related to us, nothing specific about sunlight readable, mesh network, low power, but just a vanilla laptop proposal.

In 2005, Papert, together with Nicholas Negroponte and Alan Kay launched the One Laptop Per Child initiative to put constructionist learning into practice in the developing world.

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Laptop PC

TED follows Nicholas Negroponte to Colombia as he delivers laptops inside territory once controlled by guerrillas. His partner? Colombia's Defense Department, who see One Laptop per Child as an investment in the region.

Handheld

Late last year, India s government unveiled a handheld computer that will cost only 2,250 rupees (about 40). Aakash has a resistive seven inch touch screen, like Apple s iPad.

Oh, that's a cell phone.

That's not a cell phone.

We're traveling today with the Minister of Defense of Colombia, head of the army and the head of the police, and we're dropping off 650 laptops today to children who have no television, no telephone and have been in a community cut off from the rest of the world for the past 40 years.

you're looking at a cellphone powered completely wirelessly.

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Do you own a computer?

So you have this little algal forest, and in the size of a laptop you can find more than 100 species of algae, mostly microscopic fit hundreds of species of little animals that then feed the fish, so that the system recovers.

Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child

The Nokia 6275i is a CDMA mobile phone.

So this is a computer program.

Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, two years on

The Nokia 6720 is a mobile phone by Nokia.

The Nokia 6600 fold is a mobile phone by Nokia.

Turns out I think he's actually a computer scientist.

And yet, they're just a computer company.

Journalist It's a Whirlwind electronic computer.

I bought a new computer last month.

Is there anybody in the room, one person, unless you work with OLPC, is there anybody in the room that can tell me what language the keyboard is that's on the screen? There's only one hand so you get it.

But what you do need is a very big computer.

Pocket PC A pocket PC is a hardware specification for a handheld sized computer (personal digital assistant, PDA) that runs the Microsoft Windows Mobile operating system.

The Nokia 2690 is a mobile phone made by Nokia.

Well, I've got a laptop in front of me, but you're looking at me. And you're looking at this.

So it's going to take a lot of computing power, because I want the idea that any laptop anywhere in the world can plug into the system and be able to not only participate in developing these designs, but utilize the designs. Also, a process of reviewing the designs.

And I had a Mac Classic. And it's a little box.

The laptop is manufactured by the Taiwanese computer company Quanta Computer.

Everybody says it's a 100 laptop you can't do it.