| Venezuela hands out thousands of free laptops |
| Posted by: Susan Einhorn |
| As Hender Reverol heads to third grade this year, he will have Venezuela's newest educational tool tucked beneath his arm: a government-issued laptop. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has vowed to give every elementary school student - more than 5 million of them - a free personal computer. If the government meets that target, Venezuela would join Uruguay as the only countries in the world to fully embrace the goals of the so-called one laptop per child program. Since inaugurating the initiative in 2009, Venezuela has issued more than 750,000 of the rugged, blue-and-white laptops called Canaimas. During the current school year the government expects to deliver at least 900,000 more machines and plans to deploy 3 million by 2012 - putting it at the vanguard of a worldwide educational movement. |
| Source: The Bellingham Herald (WA-USA) | Published: September 22nd, 2011 |
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