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Australian Government Backs OLPC

Posted by Soulskill on from the they-even-work-upside-down dept.

angry tapir writes "One Laptop Per Child Australia had a win in the recent Australian budget, receiving federal government funding for the first time. OLPC Australia will benefit from $11.7 million of funding, which will be used to purchase 50,000 laptops to distribute to students. The organization recently launched a new initiative that builds an educational ecosystem around the laptops, to help integrate them into the learning process."

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  1. Re:A good thing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I see you're not familiar with the laptops the Australian government foisted onto students a few years ago - cheap 10" netbooks which were too slow to be useful the day they were built.

    Now the batteries are shot, they're falling apart, and they haven't gotten any faster...