{"id":392,"date":"2007-06-25T12:48:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-25T10:48:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-06-15T09:55:15","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T07:55:15","slug":"one-learner-one-laptop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/392-one-learner-one-laptop.html","title":{"rendered":"One learner, one laptop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">A group of volunteers has launched an ambitious project to provide every pupil with a laptop by the end of next year. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">The group, which calls itself One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), said it was targeting rural schools in the Eastern Cape to run trials for its plastic laptops that boast a four-hour battery and built-in Wi-Fi. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">The group&#8217;s leader, Antoine van Gelder, said 15 people in South Africa had already volunteered to make the project a reality. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">The project is modelled on the worldwide OLPC &#8211; a brainchild of MIT media lab&#8217;s Nicholas Negroponte &#8211; and supported by the United Nations. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">The project has already conducted successful tests in countries such as Nigeria, Argentina, Nepal and Mexico. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Van Gelder said the plastic machines would be hard to break. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">&#8220;They are waterproof so you can stand in the rain and it won&#8217;t be destroyed. The aim is to budget in a way that each child can get a laptop for free.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Van Gelder said school teachers would be trained so that they can teach the children how to use the laptops. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=79309\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of volunteers has launched an ambitious project to provide every pupil with a laptop by the end of next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26783,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions\/26783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}