| Region’s one laptop per child plan has a future |
| Posted by: Susan Einhorn |
| Four years after Latin America made headlines by becoming a world leader in giving out free laptops to millions of schoolchildren — an idea that has since been embraced by more than 20 African, Asian and Eastern European countries — the first results are in, and they give some reasons for hope. An evaluation of the nearly 1 million One Laptop Per Child program in Peru, conducted by the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) and the largest of its kind, gave ample ammunition to both supporters and detractors of the program, a charity led by M.I.T.’s technology guru Nicholas Negroponte that has its operational headquarters in Miami. /21/2759975/regions-one-laptop-per-child-plan.html#storylink=cpy |
| Source: Miami Herald (FL-USA) | Published: April 21st, 2012 |
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