It’s not a laptop project. It’s an education project.

Happy Sunday Funday-

To my beloved Social Entrepreneurs: I came across the “One Laptop per Child” initiative awhile back, ironically while at work. About three weeks ago, I was Recruiting on Mesh Networking engineers for one of my undisclosed clients. To limit the technical jargon for the sanity of my readers- Mesh networking is part of wireless technology that allows a wireless network, per se, to function interconnectively (yes I made that word up). this means, when one site (say a laptop in this case) loses signal from a base station, it can retrive a signal using a laptop near by (rather than searching for the core site). Cool and advanced stuff! Anyways, I wanted to get more insight into how I can find these specialized skill sets- and the CTO suggested I check out the “One Laptop Per Child” Project:

to put things plain and simple: This kind of stuff excites me. To allow children in underdeveloped countries an adaptable resource that functions as well as some of the computers in the tech market- opens great opportunites. Not only does it give children ways to communicate their ideas to others, it allows our “closed off from the rest of the world,” American society to listen to ideas far from earshot distance. Education is empowerment and the more lives that get equal opportunity to it- the greater our global community will be.

Check it out http://www.laptopgiving.org/en/index.php at A simple donation of $200 will pay for and deliver one XO laptop to a child in a developing nation, $400 will pay for and deliver two XO laptops, and so on. Your entire contribution will be tax-deductible.

All my Best,

Taylor