The Chinese government will be the initial financier of an ambitious US$30 million One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) initiative in Guyana. Guyana is on the northern coast of South America, north of the Amazon River. It is the third-smallest independent state on the mainland of South America with a population of approximately 770,000.
The launch will involve 12,000 netbooks. It is expected that the netbooks will be supplied by a Chinese manufacturer although warranty, service and support will be provided by local companies.
President Bharrat Jagdeo said that in three years there will be computers for at least 90,000 poor families.
Stabroek News reports there will not be one laptop per family. "We’re going to probably have internet kiosks in each village so they would have a bank of computers there rather than in each individual household because of the situation with power in those communities," Jagdeo said.
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