OLPC

The One Laptop Per Child Association, Inc. (OLPC) is a U.S. non-profit organization set up to oversee the creation of an affordable educational device for use in the developing world. Its mission is "To create educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning."[1] Its current focus is on the development, construction and deployment of the XO-1 laptop.

The goal of the foundation is to provide children around the world with new opportunities to explore, experiment, and express themselves. To that end, OLPC is designing a laptop, educational software, manufacturing base, and distribution system to provide children outside of the first-world with otherwise unavailable technological learning opportunities.

OLPC lists five core principles:

1. Child ownership


2. Low ages. Both hardware and software are designed for elementary school children ages 6-12.


3. Saturation


4. Connection


5. Free and open source

Sitting patterns..

At 8:15 on a cold Monday morning....I was waiting for my company bus...finally it turns at around 8:20.There were already about ten people and now we (my friends and me) too get in. Next stop Vashi station, some more get it and occupy some more seats. Sounds simple right....

When you enter a bus do you make a conscious decision of where to sit? I don’t...anyways I was surprised to see a pattern emerge. Everyone took one window seat including me (not consciously though).It went like this first guy A1,second guy B1 and so on.No one bothered to open the window ,people were speaking to each other across seats.Then why did everyone take an independent seat ?