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One day for One Laptop doc

  • Darren Waters
  • 17 Jan 08, 08:42 GMT

Just a note to say that Rory Cellan Jones' 30-minute documentary on the One Laptop Per Child project in Nigeria can be viewed for just one more day on the 大象传媒 iPlayer. 44256369_boy_203.jpg

You can watch it here.

It's a great watch - and also looks at Intel's Classmate project, being run in a near-by school. It wasn't intentional - but the disparity between the OLPC scheme and school and the Intel project looks very ironic in the light of the between the charity and company.

Sadly, the iPlayer is only available to people in the UK at present.

Comments

  • 1.
  • At 09:54 AM on 17 Jan 2008,
  • Ross N cube wrote:

The OLPC programme will succeed. Simply because its a charitable organisation and does not need government money. African governments do not invest huge money on child education. simply.

Could you please post this long documentary video up at or some other place, even if it's a very large file, you could email me a link and I would post it on some servers so that olpc fans around the world could see the documentary in its full length and full quality over at

I'm in Denmark so I cannot access the 大象传媒 iPlayer.

  • 3.
  • At 03:24 PM on 17 Jan 2008,
  • Emily wrote:

'The OLPC programme will fail, because it is actually not a charitable organisation and is *selling* kit that is worth an appreciable percentage of national GDP to the host nations...'

Actually, it probably won't entirely fail, but the chances of it producing major changes to basic education are, sadly, quite low at this stage. More needs to be done for that to occur. They have provided hardware for a moderate price. Still, there is a missing link: the software, the culture, the evaluation and validation and the community.

Yes, I'd like to see it too please - I am in the US. Please find a way and advise where we can find it. Thanks so much.

  • 5.
  • At 02:59 PM on 18 Jan 2008,
  • laylea wrote:

Hi , yes it is a very good idea but seriously where is the school part , can you write on it draw stencil colour , all of these things are what children learn from yes a keyboard is good but no drive , where do they store all this info , can these units sorry pcs be used when home say for webcam tel over yes skype so then the whole family get too keep in touch , lastly in this country our children are expected too have a tel line and a pc olus software , ok i live in what is supposed to be a nxt step up country , so how about our goverment doing the same here NOT ALL parent's can afford a pc let alone a tel line , then their is the issue about programes well i can't afford office so how about all that money in our schools not being used after school BEING given access too from home via a pc dare i say it even a green one or what about our Biggest tel operator offering free WIFI too children YES FREE OF CHARGE think FON then think free it only takes a few of us too change the future im all for helping other countries but please we still have some serious Education and Software/Hardware issues here so let's Start with our Children joing this scheme not so bad is it , ohh good luck too our Education Minister just in case you may be watching , lastly a Slate pcis a Versatile device and is what children use most A PEN AND PAPER so now a stlus and screen even an oled one at that . great reading material a real learning space . L50 .

  • 6.
  • At 11:09 AM on 19 Jan 2008,
  • mindware wrote:

I've uploaded a copy to Google Video's:

The quality seems quite bad compared to the original copy I uploaded. If anyone know's of a video storage site which can handle high quality please post here and I will upload

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