The one question that remains unanswered after Sridhar Dhanapalan's presentation on the One Laptop per Child Australia project at the 12th Australian national Linux conference yesterday is this: is the project about technology or education?

Melbourne based web specialist Stateless Systems has promised to pay for just over 2,000 XO 1.5 laptops which will be distributed to children in the Northern Territory by the One Laptop Per Child organisation.

The Australian arm of the One Laptop Per Child project has announced an acceleration of its rollout plans for remote areas.

The One Laptop Per Child project has so far deployed 1,000 of its XO laptops in Australia and taken the first delivery of the next generation devices which it will unveil in coming weeks.

The Free Software Foundation has described the One Laptop per Child Project as one that will only help to "turn millions of children into Microsoft dependents."

Rangan Srikhanta is an enthusiastic young man with one of the most difficult jobs in the country.

The One Laptop per Child project is a forgotten entity these days - and rightly so. From being a high-profile unit it has degenerated into a curiosity.

The Northern Territory has seen the formal launch of One Laptop Per Child deployments in Australia.

There is more disquieting news emerging from the One Laptop per Child project - or what remains of it, following the sackings and budget cuts in January.

It was created to sit on the laptops of the One Laptop Per Child project but after the numerous fiascos that the mother project faced, the Sugar learning system is now being developed entirely independently of OLPC.