The One Laptop Per Child Program Was Supposed to Revolutionize the Developing World—Then It Imploded

The engineers behind OLPC ignored the concerns of the very people it was meant to benefit

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In 2005, MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte introduced a program he believed would change the world. Called One Laptop per Child (OLPC), the…