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Title:
Learning to change the world : the social impact of one laptop per child / Walter Bender [and others].
Author:
Kane, Charles.
Publication Information:
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, ©2012.
Call Number:
QA76.5 .L3776 2012
Abstract:
There are thousands of social entrepreneurship programs in various stages of planning and implementation at any given time. For the most part, these programs start out small with the intention of scaling up based on trial and error. One Laptop per Child started out with a very ambitious mission - to provide more information and better education to the world's poor via an inexpensive laptop. Almost immediately this organization garnered attention - the ambition, the caliber of people working on the program and the initial success. This book tells not only the story of this lofty group of pioneers, but also puts the lessons into perspective for future social entrepreneurs - what it means to work in this environment, how to collaborate with educators, organizations, countries, administrators, businesses. Part narrative history of OLpC, part social entrepreneurship lessons and part futuristic look at attaining the education goals it set out, this book offers a real on the ground look at how this group brought together, business, educators, technology, non-profits, and entrepreneurs to help bring an education to the world's underprivileged.
ISBN:
9780230337312
Physical Description:
xxvi, 220 pages ; 25 cm
Contents:
Introduction -- The origins of one laptop per child -- Building the $100 laptop -- Fueling learning with sugar -- Selling the green banana -- From the warehouse to the schoolhouse -- Neither magic nor fast : assessing the impact of OLPC -- OLPC now and in the future -- A call to action.
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