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# OLPC Tablet in Ethiopia
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A story mentions how [Ethiopian kids quickly learned to read and use tablet
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PCs][0] provided by the [One Laptop Per Child][1] project. This is not only a
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noble feat (as we would expect from OLPC), but also an impressive one,
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considering that (as the article mentions) the children did not know how to
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read, even in their own language.
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[0]: http://dvice.com/archives/2012/10/ethiopian-kids.php
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[1]: http://one.laptop.org/
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Now, while the OLPC does have [its own tablet][2], the article mentions that the
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[children were given Motorola Zoom tablets][0]; I would hope that they run free
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software to encourage freedom in these developing countries and to encourage the
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children to hack and explore their devices in even greater detail.
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[2]: http://one.laptop.org/about/xo-3
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