One Laptop Per Child: One Trainer Prepares | Linux Today

One Laptop Per Child: One Trainer Prepares

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 22, 2008

“Sebastian Silva is a bit worried. Three hundred thousand XO
units will arrive in Peru by August, the largest deployment in the
world by far. (Uruguay started this past December and will reach
one hundred thousand laptops this year.) As a volunteer on the OLPC
support team, Sebastian wants to make sure the children, teachers,
and technical trainers are ready.

“Sebastian sees the promise of computing as in social terms.
With XO, every person becomes a TV broadcaster–and XO is even more
empowering, because TV broadcasts can’t be chopped up and digitally
altered…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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