It is nearly midnight on the East coast of the Unites States and with that, the end of the Give 1 Get 1 donation program from the OLPC Foundation.

I was curious how successful the donation program had been - with my definition of “success” being the number of donation.

A laptop Magazine interview with Nicholas Negroponte gives a clue …

L: How many laptops have been donated through the G1, G1 program?

NN: It is hard to count, because some people gave many. Birmingham, Alabama ordered 15,000 for its kids, because of G1G1, but I really cannot count those 15,000. The final number will be between 150,000 and 170,000 laptops, without counting the very big ones like Birmingham.

The Birmingham progrma is very cool - as is the 150,000 + laptops going to the intended children.

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