Colombia signs up for XO laptop (BBC) {OLPC, $100 laptop}

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About 65,000 children in the Caldas region of Colombia will soon be getting an XO laptop.

It has signed up to the One Laptop Per Child programme which puts cheap PCs into the hands of schoolchildren.

OLPC aims to boost the educational prospects of children in developing nations through technology.

Small towns and rural areas will get the first 15,000 XO laptops. The rest will be distributed over the next 18 months to the region's larger towns.

Unveiling the deal Caldas's Governor Mario Aristizabal said the region was "committed to giving each and every child of primary school age the same opportunity to access knowledge as the most privileged children in New York, Berlin or Tokyo".
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7425284.stm

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[IndyOp]

1. Yes! I love the OLPC program...

http://laptop.org/

:hi: