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The Uruguay programme has cost the state $260 (£159) per child, including internet connections, equipment repairs, maintenance costs, and training for the teachers, but the extent to which they use the laptops in the classroom is up to them.

The investment represents less than 5% of the country’s total education budget. The yearly maintenance cost of maintaining the program will be US$21 (£13) per child. Around 70% of the OLPC XO’s handed out by the government were given to children who did not have computers at home.

Meanwhile, pilot programs in Ethiopia with the OLPC XO laptop are stalling.

Teachers resent the device and consider it a toy. According to stoth.com, the reasons for this are complicated, but in essence it’s the nature of the educational system. The OLPC program is too radical and I think the money could be better spent elsewhere in this educational system.