By Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews
The OLPC Foundation has garnered a lot of interest, but not a lot of orders. In fact, today a country placed the first real order for the XO-1.
The first official order for the so-called “$100 laptop” has been placed by the government of Uruguay.
The South American country has bought 100,000 of the machines for schoolchildren aged six to 12.
A further 300,000 may be purchased to provide a machine for every child in the country by 2009. Source: BBC News
We Say: An additional boost to the program may happen on November 12th, when the “Give 1, Get 1″ program starts, allowing end users to buy their own OLPCs, in exchange for donating one at the same time.
Good job, yoruguas. Felicitaciones por la vision.
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