Dutch Twitterati raise cash for One Laptop Per Child
Dutch Twitterati are using Twitter to support the One Laptop Per Child project, brainchild of Nicholas Negroponte. All tweets that mention the words OLPC are counted by the Twitter stats application Twitstat:
With each tweet with ‘olpc’ in it you semi-voluntarily raise 1 euro for the One Laptop Per Child
project. Each laptop is 140 euro. Please make sure @twitstat follows you
before tweeting ‘olpc’. And twitstat doesn’t count you if you have
locked your account.
The fundraiser was started by Dutch journalist Francisco van Jole ( @2525) who sponsored the first few laptops before other people started chipping in as well.
The mission of One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is to empower the children of developing countries to learn by providing one
connected laptop to every school-age child.
(watch the New York Times review of OLPC’s laptop)
The charity drive runs till midnight on Christmas Eve.
Final tally: A total of 2883,50 euro was raised, enough to buy 21 laptops. Full story (in Dutch). Happy Christmas!
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