The OLPC program exists to provide affordable computing devices to developing nations in an effort to spur education, but the foundation’s latest endeavour is taking a slightly different approach. According to the MIT Technology Review , the OLPC organization dropped off crates full of Motorola Xoom tablets to two villages close to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. While the tablets were issued with solar chargers, no instructions on how to use the devices were provided to the villages: the experiment was designed to see if illiterate children would be able to teach themselves how to read when exposed to the various apps, games, and books preloaded on the customized Xooms.
The founder of the OLPC program, Nicholas Negroponte, detailed the early...
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