OLPC is "Refocusing" w/ Changes
In an email to the OLPC community, Nicholas Negroponte has announced a major retrenchment at One Laptop Per Child. The basic changes are:
- 50% cut in staff & pay cuts for the remaining staff
- A shift to Middle East, Afghanistan and Northwestern Pakistan
- Latin America & Africa to be spun off
- Sugar to be spun off
- A $0 laptop goal for LDC's
- Development of the XO-2
- Roll out a no-cost connectivity plan
- Create one million digital books
We are quickly analyzing the reality behind Negroponte's message through the following conversations:
- OMG! OLPC Just Got Gutted! 50% Staff Gone
- OLPC News Forum Community Reactions
- A New Day at One Laptop Per Child
- Give One, Gone One OLPC Developer Program
- The Real OLPC Bust: G1G1 2008 XO Laptop Sales
- Community Solutions to XO Deployment Scale Blues
- What Keeps Me Going with One Laptop Per Child
- Sugar Learning Platform Status - Post OLPC
- Questions for Nicholas Negroponte on OLPC's Future
- More to come...
Be sure to share you thoughts, ideas, voice in this momentous change for the OLPC organization and the future of the XO laptop, through comments or a Guest Post.
Posted by Wayan Vota on Thursday, January 8, 2009 at 10:47 AM
Filed in gallery and tagged OLPC Future, OLPC Refocusing, OLPC Staff, One Laptop Per Child
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