Samuel J. Klein, director of content for the One Laptop per
Child (OLPC) initiative, will keynote the second day of the Serious Games Summit
GDC 2007 (SGS GDC). Klein's presentation, titled "One Laptop per Child and Serious
Games," will explore the potential of the OLPC initiative as a serious gaming
platform to address the educational and practical applications of videogames.
SGS GDC will take place March 5-6 at the Moscone Convention Center North in
San Francisco.
A not-for-profit humanitarian effort, OLPC designs, manufactures and distributes
inexpensive laptops with the goal of giving every child in the world access to
a modern education. Klein's keynote address will touch on the hardware, operating
system, and game development support on the first wave of laptops that will debut
later this year, and address the strategies for learning through play that the
OLPC team is formulating.
The SGS GDC speaker
line-up, full session descriptions, and registration are now available online
at
sgs.gdconf.com
.
