You could always just read the (admittedly not that great) piece which precisely explained all of that. In a sentence: Nicholas Negroponte, who started OLPC,

You could always just read the (admittedly not that great) piece which precisely explained all of that. In a sentence: Nicholas Negroponte, who started OLPC, dropped off a bunch of Xooms that run Android in a couple of villages where the kids figured out how to enable the tablet's camera without any instruction or even literacy.