31 Oct
Posted by: John in: Open Source, Linux, Kids, Government, Digital divide
BBC NEWS report…
The first official order for the so-called “$100 laptop” has been placed by the government of Uruguay.
The South American country has bought 100,000 of the machines for schoolchildren aged six to 12.
A further 300,000 may be purchased to provide a machine for every child in the country by 2009.
The order will be a boost for the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) organisation behind the project which has admitted difficulties getting concrete orders.
“I have to some degree underestimated the difference between shaking the hand of a head of state and having a cheque written,” Nicholas Negroponte, the founder of the organisation, recently told the New York Times.
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Philippe de Gain
03|Nov|2007 1It’s a good start. In the US and Europe, we could help by purchasing 2 laptops, one for us to play with and one to be given to a 3rd-world child.
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