The One Laptop Per Child project aims to redress this imbalance, and provide rugged, easy to use computing to some of the globes poorest communities:  "We aim to provide each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop. To this end, we have designed hardware, content and software for collaborative, joyful, and self-empowered learning. With access to this type of tool, children are engaged in their own education and learn, share, and create together.  They become connected to each other, to the world and to a brighter future". (http://one.laptop.org/)

As the world changes ever more rapidly, the need to prepare the future - our children  increases too. This is even more important in the developing world, where access to education and technology is often

limited. No one can forsee the kind of world the next generation will face, and as such, its imperative to equip every child, no matter where she is born, with the tools and knowledge they may need.

One Laptop Per Child not only believes that the best preparation for children is to develop a passion for learning but that the biggest cause of rapid change, digital technology, is also the solution.

With a connected laptop or tablet in their hands, limits are erased as any child has the key to full exploration and access to the world. The One Laptop Per Child project aims to provide as many children as possible with an ‘XO’ â€" an ultra-low-cost, powerful, rugged, low-power, ecological laptop.

In its first years, OLPC has helped two million previously marginalised children in 44 different countries on 6 continents, to learn, achieve and begin to transform their communities.

Currently, the One Laptop Per Child organisation is working closely with CoZa Cares to implement pilot projects and  training in South Africa. Watch this digitally connected space!