David Farning wrote: > Does anyone have information or contacts on the Brazilian referred to in > http://lwn.net/Articles/280419/ ?
The article presents UCA (One Computer per Student) as a subproject within ProInfo, but this wasn't the case the last time I checked. PronInfo is a government program from the 1990s which evolved from previous projects going all the way back to the mid 1980s. The focus has been on computer labs and teacher training. UCA was started in 2005 to evaluate the OLPC proposal and several pilot programs were started in selected schools. Three different machines were tested: OLPC XO B2, Intel Classmate 1 and the Encore Mobilis. In December of 2007 the government tried to buy 150,000 more machines for a pilot program involving 300 schools. The Classmate from Positivo won the public "auction" with an offer of $360 per laptop while OLPC came in third at $420 per XO. The government was unhappy with the result and cancelled the whole thing. They are supposed to try again this November and hope to get a better price this time. I keep a list of links relating to this in http://www.merlintec.com:8080/laptop (the page is in Portuguese; sorry about that). If you need more information, I would be happy to help. -- Jecel _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
