OLPC is an international non profit organization looking to empower children around the world with access to a good education. By providing appropriately designed laptops, kids will have access to the web of knowledge that makes up the internet, along with a large assortment of free educational software tools that they can use interactively with their classmates and friends. To read more about the higher goals of the One Laptop Per Child project, visit laptop.org.

If you are interested in a more specific look into OLPC and where they are currently heading, read through and contribute to their wiki at wiki.laptop.org