Empowering children and communities

Barry Vercoe will be speaking on Friday, May 16th about the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project, its success around the world, and the opportunity for OLPC among communities throughout the region. In addition to his involvement in the OLPC project in the USA, Barry is a board member of the newly-formed OLPC Australia which will focus on the needs of children in Australia and the Pacific.

Come and see the OLPC XO devices on display, and find out how you can get involved in OLPC Australia!

  • Event: Barry Vercoe on “One Laptop per Child: Empowering children and communities”
  • Date: Friday, May 16th
  • Time: 6pm to 7pm
  • Location: Mitchell Theatre, Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts, 280 Pitt Street, Sydney
  • Cost: Free
  • RSVP: Please RSVP for catering purposes. Some refreshments will be provided.

A big thank you to the Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts for hosting the event.

This entry was written by Jeff, posted on May 9, 2008 at 2:00 pm, filed under Events and tagged , , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

2 Comments

  1. Craig
    Posted May 12, 2008 at 10:31 am | Permalink

    Any chance that video or audio of the speech will be available online after the event?

    I’d love to go but I’m 1000kms away.

  2. Jeff
    Posted May 12, 2008 at 11:11 am | Permalink

    @Craig: I’m looking into what we can do about that — will post the video here if we can do it!

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