OLPC Expansion: One Laptop Per South Asian Child

MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte’s One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project finally found its way to India late 2007. The project, which aims to provide digitally-enabled education through the use of low-cost laptops to children in developing countries, saw its first deployment in Maharashtra (India).

This year in 2008, OLPC is expanding its presence in South Asia with an expansion

• in India itself and
• the promise of One Laptop Per Sri Lankan Child

in two new initiatives.