Nonprofit Laptops: A Dream Not Yet Over

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If you’d been told three years ago that someone was developing an educational laptop for the world’s poorest countries to buy for less than $200 each and that, by now, some one million children in 31 countries would be using them, what would you have thought?

Wow — that’s what I’d have thought.

Wow again when I was told that up to one million more of those laptops were on order.

Late last month the Uruguayan (South America) government completed the process of distributing an XO1 to each of its 415,000 elementary school children as the first phase of the Plan Ceibal initiative to provide a laptop for every student and teacher in the country.

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