We were selected to deploy 100 xo latops trough the One Laptop Per Child Corps Africa Movement 2009 in the city of Goma. this city has been victim of several years of war and of volcan iruptions . children of this city have grown up seeing bad events and images of war and other bad things.
THE ONE LAPTOP PER CHILD PROJECT
The One Laptop Per Child Association, Inc. (OLPC) is a U.S. non-profit organization set up to oversee the creation of an affordable educational device for use in the developing world. Its mission is "To create educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning."[1] Its current focus is on the development, construction and deployment of the XO-1 laptop.
The organization is led by chairman Nicholas Negroponte, and Charles Kane, President and Chief Operating Officer. OLPC is a 501(c)(3) organization registered in Delaware, USA[2] and is funded by member organizations, including AMD, Brightstar Corporation, eBay, Google, Marvell, News Corporation, SES, Nortel Networks, and Red Hat.[3][4] Each company has donated two million dollars.
OLPC has generated a great deal of interest in the Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D), in education and One to one computing fields of research.
The organization is led by chairman Nicholas Negroponte, and Charles Kane, President and Chief Operating Officer. OLPC is a 501(c)(3) organization registered in Delaware, USA[2] and is funded by member organizations, including AMD, Brightstar Corporation, eBay, Google, Marvell, News Corporation, SES, Nortel Networks, and Red Hat.[3][4] Each company has donated two million dollars.
OLPC has generated a great deal of interest in the Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D), in education and One to one computing fields of research.
THE ONE LAPTOP PER CHILD PROJECT IN THE CONGO
THE THE ONE LQPTOP PER CHILD project came in the Democratic Republic of the Congo thanks to the OLPCorps project 2009. this was a new initiative of the OLPC to eauip groups of students with 100 XO Laptops; a server and a budget to start the One Laptop per Child project in african countries. We applied trough the University of Kinshasa and were selected to initiate the One Laptop Per Child project in the city of Goma in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
In this picture Eddy Mintela and Mr Dieudone Mushamalirwa the counselor of the prime minister.
TRAINING THE KIDS
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