Uruguay gives laptops to every public primary school student

Uruguay has completed their plan of equipping every student in the country’s public primary schools with an XO Laptop computer. The final count of the computers was 396,727 laptop computers. The project is not completed because not all of the schools have connectivity yet and teacher training is still ongoing.
With this achievement Uruguay pulls far ahead of other countries, including the most developed, in equipping its schools to make effective use of information and communication in technology.
One of the remarkable things about Uruguay’s achievement is that the total cost, including the laptops, maintenance, connectivity and teacher training amounts to only 5% of country’s education budget.