Uruguay places the first official order for the OLPC

Posted October 31, 2007 at 04:03 PM by Robert Nelson

Section: Computers, Laptops

We have heard about the Give-1 Get-1 program for the OLPC and now Uruguay has become the first nation to place an official order. They have purchased the first 100,000 units and plan to set those up for school age children from 6 to 12 to use. Uruguay is also considering a possible purchase of 300,000 more that will allow them to provide a computer to every child in the country by 2009.

While off to a nice start the OLPC is still far from succeeding, the program needs 3 million units on order to make this cheap production possible.

“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.

Libya and Peru were also reported to have closed a deal with the OLPC program but currently those deals still have not been confirmed.

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