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The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) Project is a key project that aims at the enhancement of education through the Introduction of technology in primary schools. It also allows primary school students early access to computer skills and computer science understanding while expanding their knowledge on specific subjects like Science, Mathematics, languages and Social Sciences through online research or content hosted on servers.

This is a fundamental step toward the building of a knowledge based economy. In this regards, Rwanda launched the One Laptop Per Child program (OLPC) in June 2008 and the current proposed target is to provide all students from P4 to P6 access to laptops.

The One Laptop per Child covers several NICI plan (National ICT Strategy) objectives. Current status of the OLPC Rwanda Project Since the project was officially launched in 2008, a lot has been done, in school infrastructure development, laptops deployment and laptop integration in classrooms. At the beginning two pilot projects were prioritized:

1. Government Pilot Projects: The pilot project distributed 8150 laptops in 10 public schools while 1800 laptops were bought by parents from 12 private schools.

2. Pilot Project: The Government of Rwanda (GoR) in partnership with the Microsoft Corporation developed another pilot project at Inyange (APAKE) Primary School in Gicumbi District.

This pilot project involved the training of teachers and local school technician, in total, 17 teachers were trained, Electrical installations in classrooms were done, Internet access set up and Content servers installed.

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