Mary Lou Jepsen honeymoons in Peru, visits OLPC deployment

by Giovanni Glass March 15, 2008 5:15 pm Permalink
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Source: technologyreview

Recently while on honeymoon with her husband John Ryan, Mary Lou Jepsen visited Peru's Ministry of Education, in Lima. In a two hour meeting, she talked to ministry employees who face long, arduous trips to mountains by boat and by foot to remote villages. Beyond the difficulties of reaching children, there are greater challenges than low cost laptops. From the article:

"Laptops are easy; education is hard to transform," she told ministry staff.

She then demonstrated how to disassemble the laptop with a screwdriver.

"She is like the mother of the newborn, showing how to change diapers," quipped Becerra, ministry official in charge of the OLPC effort.

Her new company, Pixel Qi, will develop low cost $75 laptops and video displays. The OLPC Foundation will be first to use her company's technology once they become available.

"In the road map for OLPC, [OLPC founder] Nicholas Negroponte has committed to always lowering the price," she said. "And Pixel Qi is promising that OLPC will always have the best price."

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