President Tabaré Vazquez has provided the funding for Uruguay's One Laptop Per Child plan, a plan hoping to give 1 laptop computer to every child in Uruguay's school systems.
The agressive plan has been implimented recently, with the children recieving their computers, the wireless internet infrastructure to be completed soon.
I think this is an amazing investment by the Uruguay government. I have been studying economic development this semeseter, and it is an unfortunate reality that many developing countries do so poorly in the department of education. Uruguay seems to have a great model for success here, as I believe education and health are the two most important sectors that a government can invest in to improve the living standards of its people.
For the money to trickle down to the people as we are seeing here, is something that should happen more...even in the US.
Read the article at Slashdot.
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I agree 100% about the importance of education and health in developing nations. I did a semester long case study on Tanzania in Econ 311, and found that education was the #1 reason why the country continues to suffer such immense levels of poverty. It is a really sad situation. Hopefully, other underdeveloped countries will be inspired by Uruguay's initiatives and develop programs to improve the educational systems. Thank you for being such a great teammate. I will miss you and I hope that you continue this amazing blog even after this class has finished because I will be checking it periodically for updates via my bloglines newsfeed.
Katie, you have been the best of teammates, and the best of friends.
I am sad that our year is ending, but thanks to Professor Brown, we can keep in touch through our blogs!
As you would say, sweet life!
And about development, yes, its so simple, just educate your population, and your economy and society will take care of the rest!
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