Thailand announces their plans for the “One Laptop per Child”

Thailand announces their plans for the “One Laptop per Child”

The Thai government has just revealed details on their plans for the US based ambitious “One Laptop per Child” program.

Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra announced this scheme, which plans to provide low-cost laptop computers to all of Thailand’s millions of elementary school students.

The program is due to begin this coming October. The project operators would be delivering up to 30 computers to Thailand in October and 500 more in November.

Thaksin spoke about their aims: “If this project is completed, each elementary school child will receive a computer to learn on at school. 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.”

Thailand was one of the first companies to adopt this project when Thaksin met the “One Laptop Per Child” project’s founder, Nicholas Negroponte around a year ago.