February 13, 2006
Computers for Youth in the Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republican has begun efforts to bridge the digital divide, offering free personal computers to 3000 disadvantaged young people.
The country's president, Leonel Fernandez and others in the government have created two separate programs, the Digital Divide Reduction Program and the Digital Literacy Project. Together these programs aim to reduce the country's current technology gap.
The Dominican Republic's program is merely one small part of an international effort to bring modern technology to children in all areas of the world. Last year PoliticsOnline reported on the "One Laptop Per Child" program as well as MIT's invention of the $100 laptop.
To read more about the program, see the Dominican Today's article "Computers for Youth Program Kicks Off in DR."
Posted by Buzz Webster at February 13, 2006 11:00 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
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