Thailand to provide low-cost laptop computers to all of Thailand's millions of elementary school students
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Aug. 13, 2006

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.

The U.S.-based "One Laptop per Child" project aims to deliver up to 30 computers to Thailand in October and 500 more in November, Thaksin said in a nationwide radio broadcast on Saturday. "If this project is completed, each elementary school child will receive a computer to learn on at school," Thaksin said. "Each elementary school child will receive a computer that the government will buy for them, free of charge, instead of books, because books will be found and can be read on computers," he said. He said the first batch of laptops — costing around US$100 (euro79) each — will be distributed to children in rural areas where access to technology is limited. Those children will test the computers before the government proceeds with the project nationwide. The laptops are not yet in production.

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