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ONE LAPTOP PER CHILD AND THE EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY

COMMIT TO PROVIDING LAPTOPS TO 20 MILLION

PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDIENTS BY 2015

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 worlds body of knowledge, in order to createthe conditions for real and lasting peace.

The East African Community is the regional intergovernmental organization of the

Republics of Kenya, Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania, Republic of Rwanda and

Republic of Burundi. OLPC and EAC will work together to leverage the advantages of

the XO laptop in transforming primary school education and to promote strategies for

better access to laptops and connectivity especially for the regions under-privileged

children.

"OLPCs 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

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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.

About the One Laptop per Child

One Laptop per Child (OLPC at http://www.laptop.org ) is a nonprofit organization createdby Nicholas Negroponte and others from the MIT Media Lab to design, manufacture anddistribute laptop computers that are inexpensive enough to provide every child in the worldaccess to knowledge and modern forms of education.

Media Contacts:Jackie Lustig 781-487-4664Kyle Austin 781-487-4603press@racepointgroup.com

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