Remote community receives laptop boost

27 May 2009 | 07:09:17 PM | Source: SBS

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Galiwin'ku kids smile after receiving a laptop from the One Laptop Per Child charity organisation (SBS)

An American charity has taken its campaign to equip every school child with a laptop to a remote community in Arnhem Land.

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The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) charity has already distributed two million computers to children in developing countries, and says access to technology such as this is a basic right.

OLPC has now turned its sights to Shepherdson College in Galiwin'ku, in the Northern Territory.

The laptops, nicknamed "green machines", have been designed to overcome language difficulties and cultural barriers.

They have been designed to withstand the harsh environmental conditions of the outback.

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