500 XO Laptops imported into Cambodia on January 2008 through the United Nation Development Program (UNDP) have been distributed to Cambodian poor students in remote rural areas in provinces and city such as Preah Vihear, Siem Reap, Kompong Speu, Kandal and Phnom Penh.
XO Laptop manufactured by OLPC (One Laptop Per Child Association) is a potent learning tool created extremely for children in developing countries. The XO is the product of the very best thinking about technology and learning.
The laptop helps children build upon their active interest in the world around them to engage with powerful ideas. Tools for writing, composing, simulating, expressing, constructing, designing, modeling, imagining, creating, critiquing, debugging, and collaborating enable children to become positive, contributing members of their communities.
The result is a unique harmony of form and function; a flexible, ultra-low-cost, power-efficient, responsive, and durable machine with which nations of the emerging world can leapfrog decades of development—immediately transforming the content and quality of their children’s learning.
In the Cambodia society, most of Cambodian people in middle class afford to computer or Laptop. Since early 2008, Cambodia’s poor children in public school in rural areas would have opportunity to know new Information and Communication Technology (ICT). Even though, not most poor student can access new technology. By the way, the lack of electricity is the main obstacle to the use of the information technology.
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October 9th, 2008 at 8:53 am
UNDP moves in the right direction in getting people educated which would be utmost important for human resources in the future
October 9th, 2008 at 11:37 am
Excellent project to help the young children getting the idea of new technology especially for those children in the rural areas of Cambodia.
My question is WHO & HOW the children will receive the eduction through these materials?
October 9th, 2008 at 11:48 am
I really do not know the process of distributing these Laptop to poor young children. it is good or bad.
October 9th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
well done, but is the real poor children of cambodia to get these laptop free? i don’t think so…..
October 9th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
As I know those poor pupils in rural areas got it free. By the way, those young children are living in the very poor families. And the kind of such XO laptop have not yet been on sale in Cambodian market.