Uruguay Being First Buyer XO Project

 Government of Uruguay became the first customer for Microsoft's XO project is better known as the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child). For now, countries in this part of South America has bought 100,000 pieces a laptop for school, for children of school age children up to 12 years. In 2009 the government will come forward to providing 300,000 laptops to every child in Uruguay.
To the New York Times, the originator of OLPC, Nicholas Negroponte said, "I have a little anxiety in distinguishing between a handshake with the gift of a check written." However he welcomed this first cooperation. According to him, they have agreed to make Uruguay the first country that will be a concentration of them in providing laptops to all children and teachers, after that they will explore the following countries.
The XO laptop itself has been known as a laptop procurement project for underprivileged children, especially in developing countries. Therefore, in the manufacture of these laptops are designed seawet possible, anti-water, can be operated using solar energy, including the display which is not affected so that sunlight can be used inside or outdoors. The cost of production of the XO laptop is not planned more than 100 U.S. dollars per piece. But at the end of last year's production costs are soaring apiece laptops up to U.S. $ 188 range. The government then offered these laptops to 250,000 units. Since these changes, the government will then consider the possibility remains distribute this laptop or will sell it cheaply. Courses buy a can 1 (G1G1 = Give 1 Get 1) will be applied to developing countries such as Cambodia, Afghanistan, Rwanda and Haiti. In addition, the government will sponsor Italy 50 000 laptops to children in Ethiopia. Although pilot projects have been agreed upon, but until now there has been no official confirmation of any of the countries that have signed the project.
According to recent news, orders for 100,000 laptops are replaced by the Laboratorio Tecnologico del Uruguay (Latu) which runs education projects, and communication in large-scale project called Ceibal. Before accepting this order, Latu had also evaluated the rivals of the XO laptop, namely the Intel Classmate laptop. Planned 300,000 units this XO laptops will be distributed to children in 19 developing countries around the world.

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