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OLPC Doesn't Need a Global Business Case Challenge
The business plan of execution that must
With the business case become clear, we'll talk about what the OLPC really needs - Implementation of business plan. Not sexy, not funny, and not a party with 300 students. Sound:
A clear focus on execution: Drop the XO-3 Entertainment and return to basics - drawing developed world donors to support pilot deployments of laptops XO-1, the volume of sales to secure national governments....
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Can the education-focused OLPC XO 3.0 tablet teach consumer manufacturers ...
- The third version of OLPC's laptop is now down to $185, and McNierney said they hope to get the price of their tablet down over time, as well. Not until someone says, “we want a million of these,” though, will the team pull the trigger and pick a price
- OLPC's ultimate goal is to one day provide every child in the world with a connected computer, tablet or otherwise. Most of these children are from developing nations, like Uruguay, where buying a personal tablet isn't the highest priority for most
- OLPC says it is working on this and that it does work in some applications. Speaking of applications, many of the apps for this tablet are built by countries that buy the tablets or laptops, so while there are native browser, camera, word processing
- We've seen kid-friendly tablets come and go in the past, but most recently the OLPC XO 3.0 looked like it could be the computing savior of third word children. The new Kurio might not quite match the OLPC, but at least you'll be able to buy it.
- Is this the design that will finally get computing power in the hands of every child? So far, OLPC has shipped 2.4 million laptops to children in 42 countries and 25 languages, but its impact has been far short of its ambitions.
