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Chile, Costa Rica: “Un Computador por Niño”

Categories: Latin America, Chile, Costa Rica, Development, Technology

Ricardo Carreón, General Manager of Intel for Latin America, describes a pilot test of Classmate PC [1] (“laptop for kids in emerging markets”) that he attended in Costa Rica [2] with Intel CEO Craig R. Barret. On a related note, Carreón points us [3] to a collection of YouTube videos about Chile's “Un Computador por Niño” program [ES] [4], which strives strives to provide free and unlimited access to PCs to 1 million children before 2010.