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Weekend Reading Links: Thailand Plans To Give Out Free $100 Laptops

$100 Laptop

Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has announced that an ambitious project to provide low-cost laptop computers to all of Thailand’s millions of elementary school students will begin in October.

(Via SiliconValley.com)

This entry was posted on Sunday, August 13th, 2006 at 3:25 pm and is filed under Digital Divide.

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    • One Response to “Weekend Reading Links: Thailand Plans To Give Out Free $100 Laptops”

    1. wayan Says:
      August 13th, 2006 at 7:49 pm

      PM Thaksin Shinawatra also said that the OLPC would replace books in Thailand’s schools. Crazy? I think so!

      http://www.olpcnews.com/commentary/olpc_news/olpc_to_replace_book.html

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