Connectivity

One Laptop per Child shows the power of public-private collaboration to solve pressing social goals. Launched in 2005, OPLC is a big-ideas initiative that uses technology to empower children across the developing world.

OPLC’s daring idea was to create a low-cost yet long-life personal computer, the 0X-1, that would provide children in the developing world with cutting-edge technological learning opportunities that would otherwise remain out of reach.

OLPC is also a great example of what public, private and academic collaboration can achieve. OLPC was incubated at the MIT Media Lab, has the backing of the United Nations Development Program and receives funding from technology companies including AMD, eBay, Google and Red Hat.

The OX-1 started mass production in November 2007. To date, over 1.2 million laptops have been distributed to children around the world.