One Laptop Per Child

About One Laptop per Child: OLPC is a non-profit organization created by Nicholas Negroponte and others from the MIT Media Lab to design, manufacture and distribute laptop computers that are inexpensive enough to provide every child in the world access to knowledge and modern forms of education. About Montevideo, Uruguay: Montevideo is the largest city, the capital, the chief port, and the hub of commerce and higher education in Uruguay. Montevideo has welcomed its designation of "OLPC capital of the world," cementing its reputation as the southernmost cosmopolitan capital city in the Americas with the highest quality of life in Latin America.