Chile, Costa Rica: “Un Computador por Niño”

Posted 30 March 2007 20:58 GMT

Countries	Chile, Costa Rica
Topics	Development, Technology

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Chile

Ricardo Carreón, General Manager of Intel for Latin America, describes a pilot test of Classmate PC (”laptop for kids in emerging markets”) that he attended in Costa Rica with Intel CEO Craig R. Barret. On a related note, Carreón points us to a collection of YouTube videos about Chile's “Un Computador por Niño” program [ES], which strives strives to provide free and unlimited access to PCs to 1 million children before 2010.

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Costa Rica

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