One laptop per child. That's the dream envisioned by MIT professor
Nicholas Negroponte <http://laptop.org/en/vision/mission/index.shtml>,
the creator of the One Laptop per Child foundation
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/olpc>, and the XO laptop
<http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO>. The dream is also shared by Stephen
Jacobs, instructor of the One Laptop per Child Class (OLPC) at RIT.
"The whole idea of this class is to give students who want to give
back to developing nations a chance to do so," says Jacobs. The class
(course 4080-590) is now in its second year and is a place where any
major at RIT can contribute. Offering an un-paid co-op possibility,
the OLPC class allows students to work on the open source software
that the computers run on, as well as create content for children's
educational tools.
Read the full article at
http://www.rit.edu/academicaffairs/centerforstudentinnovation/?p=526
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