25,000 OLPC laptops ready to roll in Peru, 400,000 to come

by Giovanni Glass March 28, 2008 1:28 pm Permalink
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Source: technologyreview

Peru is poised to deploy 25,000 laptops to students. Peru is one of the OLPC Foundation's largest deployments. In December 2007, Peru announced a signed contract for over 260,000 laptops. Initially President Alan Perez announced in October 2007 a 40,000 laptop purchase with an option to buy 250,000 later on.

Peru has been conducting a pilot program in Arahuay with early beta OLPC laptops. Peru will be ramping up the deployment. Technology Review reports 400,000 laptops will be deployed throughout Peru.

Most students will be without Internet access. Many of the schools are in remote mountain villages. Internet access is sparse to non-existent. Some will have access to satellite data uplink. As a whole, software and other data will need to be delivered to the teachers by more conventional means such as memory sticks.

In other South American countries, Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim ordered 50,000 laptops for Mexico.

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