Laptops Lenovo Australia

OLPC Australia can trace its roots back to a collaboration in August 2006, between Rangan Srikhanta, Professor Barry Vercoe and Gregory Moo, with an ambition to bring OLPC XO laptops to remote Indigenous learners in the Northern Territory.

At this time, the minimum XO laptop order was set at one million laptops. The sheer size of this minimum order, and the subsequent cost, prevented OLPC Australia from working alone. As such, this informal group was required to 'think outside the box' and consider the implications of a more regional approach which would incorporate children living throughout the Pacific.

In October 2006, the group was collaborating with key members of OLPC Pacific; David Leeming, Ian Thomson, Sam Taufao and John Budden. It was decided that OLPC Australia and OLPC Pacific should join, and were tentatively known as OLPC Oceania.

Simultaneously, the global body of OLPC slowly reduced its minimum order limit from one million laptops to smaller, more achievable allotments.

A great majority of 2007 was spent trialling pre-production versions of the laptops in remote communities throughout the Oceania region. However, the group soon realised that although the implications of remoteness were uniform in both Pacific children and remote Australian children, the circumstances were different.