{"id":105,"date":"2009-10-17T13:27:21","date_gmt":"2009-10-17T13:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/?p=105"},"modified":"2009-10-17T13:27:21","modified_gmt":"2009-10-17T13:27:21","slug":"uruguay_gives_l","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/2009\/uruguay_gives_l\/","title":{"rendered":"Uruguay gives laptops to every public primary school student"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.olpcnews.com\/countries\/uruguay\/last_xo_laptop_olpc_uruguay.html\">Uruguay has completed their plan of equipping every student in the country&#8217;s public primary schools with an XO Laptop computer.<\/a> The final count of the computers was 396,727 laptop computers. The project is not completed because not all of the schools have connectivity yet and teacher training is still ongoing.<br \/>\nWith this achievement Uruguay pulls far ahead of other countries, including the most developed, in equipping its schools to make effective use of information and communication in technology.<br \/>\nOne of the remarkable things about Uruguay&#8217;s achievement is that the total cost, including the laptops, maintenance, connectivity and teacher training <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/technology\/8309583.stm\">amounts to only 5% of country&#8217;s education budget.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uruguay has completed their plan of equipping every student in the country&#8217;s public primary schools with an XO Laptop computer. The final count of the computers was 396,727 laptop computers. The project is not completed because not all of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/2009\/uruguay_gives_l\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,6,4,8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-icts","category-information-society","category-internet","category-leapfrogging-development"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p22Btc-1H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}