On Mar 1, 2011, at 7:41 AM, Christoph Derndorfer wrote: > Am 01.03.2011 13:36, schrieb Christoph Derndorfer: >> Am 28.02.2011 22:59, schrieb John Watlington: >>> >>> On Feb 23, 2011, at 10:27 AM, Christoph Derndorfer wrote: >>> >>>> I'm still absolutely clueless about the total figures but what I do know >>>> is that Argentina's Conectar Igualdad program >>>> (http://www.conectarigualdad.gob.ar/) will distribute 3 million >>>> Classmate PCs in part of its public secondary school system by the end >>>> of 2012. By late December approximately half a million of them had >>>> supposedly been distributed. >>> >>> According to the web site at the URL provided above, none have >>> been delivered to children as of Feb. 28. >> >> When I was in Buenos Aires in mid-December for a 3-day workshop >> organized by the Argentinian MoE I also met my former Argentinian host >> brother and his cousin who had received their Classmate PCs in late >> November. >> >> So I know that at least two of them have actually been distributed (and >> no, this time not based on dubious information from Kigali;-) >> >>> We continue to hear that Classmates are being deployed, but nobody >>> can provide concrete information about where and how many. >> >> I'll get in touch with some people in Buenos Aires to try and figure out >> what the current figure there is. > > Okay, just found > http://www.conectarigualdad.gob.ar/sobre-el-programa/evaluacion-y-seguimiento/informe-de-avance-de-entregas/ > which supposedly provides the number of distributed netbooks and is > updated on a weekly basis. > > The count as of today is 358,227.
Impressive number. What software are they running ? Cheers, wad _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
