18 Facts About OLPC

The OLPC project is critically reviewed in a 2019 MIT Press book titled The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child.

OLPC program has its roots in the pedagogy of Seymour Papert, an approach known as constructionism, which espoused providing computers for children at early ages to enable full digital literacy.

OLPC brought a mock-up and was described as prowling the halls and corridors of Davos to whip up support.

UNDP released a statement saying they would work with OLPC to deliver "technology and resources to targeted schools in the least developed countries".

Advertisements for OLPC began streaming on the video streaming website Hulu and others in 2008.

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OLPC's added that clean water and schools were more important.

OLPC project has been criticized for allegedly adopting a "one-shot" deployment approach with little or no technical support or teacher training, and for neglecting pilot programs and formal assessment of outcomes in favor of quick deployment.

At CES 2012, OLPC showcased the XO-3 model, which featured a touchscreen and a modified form of SugarLabs "Sugar".

De Raadt later clarified that he finds an issue with OLPC having proprietary firmware files that are not allowed to be independently re-distributed by third-party operating systems like OpenBSD, as well as receiving no documentation to write the necessary drivers for the operating system.

Negroponte further said that "OLPC will sell Linux-only and dual-boot, and will not sell Windows-only [XO-1 laptops]".

In 2005 and prior to the final design of the XO-1 hardware, OLPC received criticism because of concerns over the environmental and health impacts of hazardous materials found in most computers.

The OLPC asserted that it aimed to use as many environmentally friendly materials as it could; that the laptop and all OLPC-supplied accessories would be fully compliant with the EU's Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive ; and that the laptop would use an order of magnitude less power than the typical consumer netbooks available as of 2007 thus minimizing the environmental burden of power generation.

OLPC later worked directly with program sponsors from the public and private sectors to implement its educational program in entire schools and communities.

OLPC initially stated that no consumer version of the XO laptop was planned.

Originally, OLPC announced the United States would not be part of the first-year effort.

OLPC responded by claiming that they had not sold any multi-lingual keyboards in the design claimed by Lancor, and that Lancor had misrepresented and concealed material facts before the court.

OLPC appealed the Court's decision, the Appeal is still pending in the Nigerian Federal Court of Appeals.

In March 2008, OLPC filed a lawsuit in Massachusetts to stop LANCOR from suing it in the United States.