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| Argentina Joins MIT's Low-Cost Laptop Plan |
| Ministry of Education is ordering between 500,000 to 1 million low-cost computers for young students |
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Fernando Marino-Aguirre (kalonik)  |
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Published 2005-10-27 10:17 (KST) |
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Argentina Ministry of Education is collaborating with a project of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to put a laptop computer into the hands of the nation's children.
 |  | |  MIT's prototype low-cost laptop | | | ©2005 MIT Media Lab | Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT program "One Laptop per Child," said the program will launch a prototype of a bare-bones low-cost laptop for students as early as next year. The machines will have lower quality screens and less software found in most PCs.
Brazil and China will also be receiving such computers for students, expected to be distributed at the end of 2006 or early 2007.
The computers, with low capacity of storage but high connectivity, will use the Linux operating system and have the capability of generating their own energy through an attached hand-operated crank.
Sources at the Education Ministry indicated that one of the project's challenges is related to computer literacy and its introduction as a tool for personal growth for both students and teachers.
"Argentina has decided to integrate itself into the program and to advance in the manufacture of between 500,000 and 1 million laptops, and to become the first Spanish-speaking country involved in the project," Education Minister Daniel Filmus said.
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