One Laptop Per Child: Give One Get One XO-1

One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) XO-1 laptop

You might consider this Christmas season donating to the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) campaign. If you donate $400, you can get one laptop for yourself to keep, but only if you donate during the brief give one, get one period. Of course, you can always donate without asking for a laptop in return.

The goal of OLPC is to create a laptop specifically for schoolchildren in developing nations. The idea is that only with free access to information (in concert with a good education) can we ensure a better future. The laptop itself is creative and intriguingly designed, in both hardware and software. It is not perfect, and the OLPC project recently experienced a resignation by a key player because of a violation of the project’s principles, but promoting this project is still a good thing. It is intended to be an education project as opposed to a laptop project, according to the project chairman, and this mission is worth advancing.

If you have a Facebook user account, consider adding OLPC to your Causes.