OLPC hits 100% in Niue

Author: Ann Poochareon
Posted: August 25th, 2008 @ 10:56am
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Tags: development, education, innovation

children with XOs in South Africa (credit: Reuters)

The One Laptop per Child project has truly lived up to its name in Niue — a small island nation in the South Pacific — where every child now has an XO laptop, reports the BBC.

It is not the first time that Niue has proven to be ahead of the technological curve; in 2003, it became the first territory to offer free wireless internet to all its inhabitants.

Besides instant wireless websurfing, the schoolchildren will also be able to communicate with each other within a radius of one kilometre without going online.

Secretariat of the Pacific Community director general Jimmie Rodgers was quoted by the AFP news wire as saying that the laptops “have the potential to revolutionise education in ways that are difficult to imagine.”

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