Tuesday, October 30th 2007
Uruguay Orders First Official Batch of $100 OLPCs
While countries such as Nigeria have been experimenting with the OLPC in the classroom, Uruguay is the first country confident enough in the OLPC to place an official order. The South American country of Uruguay recently placed an order for 100,000 OLPCs, to be deployed in classrooms for 6-12 year old schoolchildren. An additional 300,000 OLPCs may be ordered by Uruguay to truly achieve "one laptop per child" by 2009. The founder of the OLPC project is "delighted" by their first official order.
Source:
BBC
We commend Uruguay for being the first country to take concrete actions to provide laptops to all its children and teachers and look forward to other countries following this example
6 Comments on Uruguay Orders First Official Batch of $100 OLPCs
If so I wonder how bad these PCs will be used for harm.
It's as disingenuous as calling the video iPod the $100 iPod.
OLPC project should be hung out to dry by the Advertising Standards Body for false price advertising.