"The mission of the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) movement is to ensure that all school-aged children in the developing world are able to engage effectively with their own personal laptop, networked to the world, so that they, their families and their communities can openly learn and learn about learning."
This is a bold and amazing project that aims to find the means to allow children in the developing world NOT to fall behind as the rest of the world advances technologically. The organization found a way to reduce the cost of producing very basic laptops (that are very durable) to about US $200. In its initial development phase, the laptop had a little crank on the side of it as a power source, but today that laptops are powered through an AC adapter.
"The origins of OLPC stretch back more than four decades to the primordial days of computing, when most machines were still the size of small dinosaurs and next to no one imagined they had any connection to children. Pioneer thinkers such as Seymour Papert dreamed they would be suitable for children, and time has proved the immense power of the personal computer as a learning tool."
The OLPC website also has a time line as well as information on the various ways people can participate!
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