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Kampala, Uganda, April 28, 2010 – One Laptop per Child (OLPC), a nonprofit
organization whose mission is to help provide every child in the world access to a
modern education, is partnering with the East Africa Community (EAC) to deliver laptops
to every primary school student throughout the EAC by 2015. This commitment is in line
with the UN Millennium Development Goal of enabling a generation of children to think
critically, connect to each other and to the world’s body of knowledge, in order to create
the conditions for real and lasting peace.
"OLPC’s partnership with the East Africa Community represents another significant step
toward a world in which every child has access to a world-class education, to the world's
body of knowledge, and to each other,” said Nicholas Negroponte, founder and
chairman of One Laptop per Child. “The East African Community is dedicating itself not
simply to one laptop per child, but to a world in which the children become agents of
change – making things, teaching each other and their families and affecting the social
development of their community.”
Ambassador Juma Mwapachu, Secretary General of the East Africa Community, said, “If
you want to build a knowledge economy, you must have a computer literate population,
starting from primary and secondary school children and all the way to university… This
is a very ambitious project for which we will have to partner with various people and
institutions to mobilize and fund the resources required to meet our objectives by 2015.”
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