Access to the Internet has tripled in the interior of Uruguay, and 85% of all children use the Internet, according to a recent study by Radar and Antel. 40% of them visit one of the official national educational or informational sites at least once a day. That’s pretty fly.
Marco Fioretti interviewed Bernie in Paraguay about his ongoing work there. From the interview:
The main reason of my work in this country was to bring our end users as cexercise/>lose as possible to the developers: our development model cannot work without quick feedback from the trenches. Luckily, I found a lot of talent and interest for programming among the young people of Caacupè. Last March I started to meet some of them them every week to teach them how to develop software for Sugar. We call this the “Caacupé hackfest” and it’s going pretty well.
It’s a nice followup to the XO customization posted last month.
The La Rioja pilot is underway, with the first of 60,000 XOs being distributed and field reports coming in from reactivated’s Daniel Drake. Local news are reporting on the need to bring laptops to places where noone comes, and the value of Sugar to young learners.
The latest article in La Nacion includes an intro video by Ariel Torres about the OLPC project, with a nice Wikipedia cameo.
