Technology or business practices used to augment the solution for one laptop per child:

While now costing $200 per laptop, the OLPC XO-1 contains an impressive array of technology
Advances that are not found in the most expensive commercial laptops. Each advance is
Tweaked to facilitate the constructionist goal of children’s collaborative learning.
Sugar Learning Platform

The laptop user interface, the software that children navigate to interact with the computer is called Sugar. It doesn’t look like Microsoft Windows, Apple OSX, or any flavor of Linux, but it is Open Source software, where any user can customize the code. based on the Linux operating system, Sugar’s every aspect is designed to encourage collaboration. It starts with a circle of activities, not programs, and promotes the sharing of the activities both online and through the physical interaction a child has with the computer. Take the classic computer game Tetris. Sugarized, for the XO-1, it is now called Block Party, a collaborative spatial manipulation learning tool where multiple
Players work in concert to place irregular-sized blocks in congruent, solid lines.
Mesh Networking
To facilitate this constant collaboration, OLPC is implementing a new wireless Internet protocol called 802.11s, which allows each XO-1 to directly and instantly connect with another. This mesh network eliminates the need for a traditional central computer router each laptop automatically becomes a router - and allows every computer access to any other computer’s Internet connection without a lengthy or complicated network formation process. The mesh network is further enhanced by its connection through antennas on the top of the laptop, its signature bunny ears, which allow the XO-1 to talk to XOs up to a kilometer away.

A Library of Alexandria

Activities and connectivity are well and good, but there is already a wealth of human knowledge in the printed word. The OLPC XO allows children to access this knowledge through electronic books in its eBook mode, a tablet-style laptop form factor that presents printed matter in a landscape format perfect for recreating the actions of reading text. An eBook takes up a fraction of digital space, each XO-1 can hold several hundred eBooks and a community server can hold a few thousand more, so the XO-1 becomes an eBook reader with access to an entire Library of Alexandria worth of information in any language and on any subject.

Reading in Daylight

Even the world’s greatest collection of eBooks would be useless if children could not read them easily so the XO-1 comes with an innovative dual-mode screen that makes reading enjoyable anywhere. The screen seamlessly switches from a high resolution color mode for a clear and crisp visual experience to a power-saving black and white mode that can be read in direct sunlight, just like a newspaper.Children will be able to explore literature in the classroom, at home, or outside, where they spend much of their day. Energy Efficienc y The XO-1 takes the greatest challenge of rural community computing, reliable electricity and makes it an asset. The XO-1 is one of the world’s most power-efficient computers, using only 3-6 Watts of power in normal operation. This compares to 100+ Watts for traditional computers. With such a low power draw, the XO-1 can be recharged with small solar panels or other alternate energy sources. Combined with a multi-battery charger, an entire classroom of XOs can be recharged for home use, even if homes do not have electricity.

Rugged Computing

One XO-1 laptop is designed to run for five years, even in the harsh operating environment of a child’s life in the developing world. The computer is one of the most rugged technology platforms yet developed. It has a sturdy hard-plastic frame, shock resistant internal technology, a thick, protected screen, and even a rubberized, waterproof keyboard to help it survive heat, dust and even a rainstorm. If an XO-1 is eventually damaged, its designers say it can be repaired by the children, the act of repair being another constructionist learning opportunity.
All these technology advances were wrapped in a laptop form - bright green and white and child-like - designed to ensure that only children would use them, making the XO-1 a near perfect learning tool for children in the developing world.

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One Laptop per Child, a non-profit organization whose mission is to help every child in the world gain access to a modern education, demonstrated a fully functional version of the much-anticipated XO 3.0 a low-cost, low-power, rugged tablet computer designed for classrooms around the globe at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show. We're proud to introduce the XO 3.0 tablet, showcasing the design, durability and performance features that make it a natural successor for our current laptops, which have been distributed to more than 2.4 million children in 42 countries and in 25 languages, Technology Officer of One Laptop per Child.

Marvell is committed to improving education and the human condition around the world through innovative technology for Smartphone’s, tablets and a myriad of new cloud delivered services. Partnering with One Laptop Per Child is one way we can deliver a revolution where it matters most to benefit children in some of the poorest places on the planet. Marvell has been with One Laptop per Child from the start and we're doing whatever it takes to help the organization realize its mission of providing meaningful educational opportunities to the 500 million school-aged children around the world.
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With all of these technological advances, One Laptop Per Child is still experiencing its own learning opportunity as it tries to distribute the XO-1 laptop to children. OLPC's original plan was to convince the presidents of countries to buy laptops by the millions through their national education systems and to pass them out like, or in lieu of, textbooks.
Unfortunately, OLPC overestimated the power of presidents to purchase goods directly or even to stay in office. To great fanfare, OLPC announced agreements with presidents in Argentina,
Brazil, Libya, Nigeria, and Thailand for 1 million XO laptops each in 2006, only to have all those orders canceled. Brazil and Libya went with other computing options in smaller increments, and when presidents in Argentina, Nigeria and Thailand changed, the new governments distanced themselves from OLPC. Other governments were hesitant to purchase XO laptops, for several reasons:

Incomplete Technology Ecosystems

The XO-1 laptop by itself is a technological marvel, but it requires a technology and education ecosystem to be truly effective. OLPC did not have a fully functional Sugar user interface, did not have significant educational content relevant to the deployment communities, and did not have supporting technology, like school servers, to support large-scale rollouts of XO-1 laptops.
Lack of a Compelling Argument
OLPC did not convince Ministers of Education that constructivism through XO-1 laptops for every child would be more effective than traditional educational models. They relied on the commonly held assumption, still yet to be proven empirically, that children using computers increase learning outcomes, and proposed that individual ownership of the computers would lead to even greater learning opportunities, inside and outside of the classroom. Few Concrete Examples

OLPC dismissed the need for pilots or testing, believing that Negroponte's and Papert’s work with Logo in Cambodia and Senegal was sufficient. Partly this was a desire to move past the slow, incremental diffusion of technology in the developing world, but it was also a ploy to have countries buy large orders, so OLPC could keep the XO-1 price low. The actual effect was to create a major barrier to entry countries were asked to commit $200 million for computing hardware that had never been tested or used in progressively larger rollouts.

No Defined Implementation Plan

Not only did the XO-1 laptop lack large-scale field-testing, OLPC did not have a defined implementation plan for countries to follow. Logistically, Ministries of Education were told to pass out the XO-1 laptops like textbooks, not realizing how few countries buy school supplies on a national scale. Most school supplies are bought regionally, even locally.
Technologically, OLPC dismissed the need for local support or maintenance, maintaining that the children themselves would intuitively be able to provide national XO tech support. Pedagogically, OLPC was promoting constructivism but did not provide ministries with the teacher training resources to move from their current practices to a
XO empowered constructivism model.
Faced with deteriorating sales projections on a global scale, OLPC kick started its production line with a two for one sales plan called Get One Give One, or G1G1 at Christmastime in 2007 and 2008. G1G1 had mixed success, it certainly raised the profile of OLPC and was a significant fundraising success in 2007 if not 2008, but exposed the XO to the demanding developed world consumer audience who often did not appreciate their difference with the XO’s target: children in the developing world

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Nicholas Negroponte’s $100 laptop idea a rugged yet low-cost computing device stunned the technology industry. While global telecommunications leaders were quick to dismiss his idea as folly, as OLPC News told The Economist The rise of the low-cost laptop , they did not laugh long:

OLPC took the idea of a low-power, appropriate performance, highly portable, and low-priced computer, first conceptualized by the Simputer, and made it a reality with the XO laptop. Then, through the Give One Get One sales program, OLPC sold 160,000 XO-1 computers to the developed world market in the last 6 weeks of 2007.
This heretical bombast and sales coup upset the longstanding computer manufacturing tradition to keep adding functions to maintain high prices in the developed world, while ignoring the developing world. Realizing an untapped market existed for low cost laptop computers, and fearing the XO would capture this market, companies such as ASUS, Acer, and Hewlett Packard rushed in to satisfy the demand that One Laptop Per Child awoke.
The emergence of 4P Computing power, performance, portability, and price as a driver of technology innovation, is best seen in the net book computers, which are the fastest growing sales category in personal computing - 14.6 million net books were sold in 2008, 11% of all laptop sales. Still, these net books are not targeted at educational markets in the developing world, they’re designed as secondary computers for developed world consumers to access the Internet, and are too delicate and power-hungry to be useful in rural areas.
With its initial sales projections of millions of XO-1's to governments, One Laptop Per Child quickly drew the attention of Intel Corporation, a major computer component manufacturer. The
XO-1 laptop uses the Geode microprocessor from AMD Corporation, a direct rival to Intel, which wants its own microprocessors in the world's computers. In response, Intel produced the classmate PC, its own educationally focused computer adhering to the 4P Computing requirements of appropriate power, performance, portability, and price, and positioned the classmate as a direct competitor to the XO-1.

While the Classmate PC was not a revolution in computing like the XO-1, Intel did have a better sales and implementation process through the World Ahead program. Governments could buy small lots of Classmate PC's and roll them out in pilot programs, reducing the initial purchase commitments form OLPC's millions to tens of thousands. Intel also developed the Classmate to work within existing educational models, unlike OLPC, which designed their computer be used with constructivism learning practices. In addition, Intel provided extensive administrative and training support to Ministries of Education.
As a result of the imperfect government sales plan, and the attention received by its competitors, One Laptop Per Child is nowhere near its initial projections of 5-10 million XO-1 laptops deployed by 2008. In fact, OLPC has reduced its minimum purchase amount to 1,000
XO-1 laptops to stimulate smaller government purchases.
To date, there are small-scale XO laptop deployments in 20-30 counties, but only Uruguay,
Peru, and Rwanda have placed solid orders for large-scale deployments of XO-1 laptops, and then in 100,000 laptop batches. Currently OLPC has major 10,000+ XO-1 computer orders with the following countries:
XO Laptop Deployments
• Uruguay: 300,000 for every child in the school system
• Peru: 260,000 for every child in rural schools
• Rwanda: 110,000 for primary schools
• United States & Canada: 67,000 through Give One Get One
• Mexico: 50,000 for libraries in rural areas
• Mongolia: 20,000 for select schools
• United States: 15,000 for the Birmingham, AL school district

The two entries for the United States are for two separate programs. The Give One Get One program was not a government-organized purchase program; it was individuals buying XO-1's for personal use outside of any structured learning environment. In Mexico and Mongolia, XO-1 laptop purchases were subsidized by businessmen a telecommunications billionaire, bought all the XO-1's and in Mongolia, half of the XO-1's were bought and the other half were donated by OLPC itself, through give one get one donations.
As a result of these lower sales numbers, declining financial support from its sponsors, and the increased competition from other 4P Computing options, OLPC significantly restructured its operations in early 2009, implementing the following changes:
New Software Options
To reduce costs, OLPC laid-off its software development staff that were working on the
Sugar learning platform, passing it to a separate organization, Sugar Labs, which continues Sugar development. OLPC still ships XO-1's with its Sugar learning platform, but Microsoft now offers the Windows XP operating system for the XO-1 in government purchases. New XO‐2 Laptop Design
OLPC has announced its intention to design an XO-2 laptop that will have significant advances, among them a dual-screen design where one screen can be a touchpad keyboard or function as a second screen. OLPC will not manufacture or sell this design, but license it to other companies who could build and sell it independently.

New Implementation Focus

OLPC has rolled off its Central and South American operations to Brightstar, it’s preferred distributor, and to the Uruguayan and Peruvian governments, and its African operations to a team in Rwanda. OLPC will focus its sales efforts on the Middle East, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. OLPC believes these actions allow it to maintain its focus on XO-1 sales and XO-2 development during the current, stressed financial climate.

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