Laptops for children in Bhutan

ITU and One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) have signed a Cooperation Agreement to connect and educate children in Bhutan in the use of information and communications technology. The training programme will benefit about 300 students and teachers, with teachers invited to be trained together with the students. OLPC is providing 200 XO Laptops to connect 24 schools in rural and remote areas of Bhutan. The ITU and the 50x15 Foundation are providing an additional 44 Laptops under the ITU-AMD Learning Labs project as well as training support for the 24 schools. In addition UNICEF is providing 25 XO Laptops and ITU is facilitating training for eight school teachers identified by UNICEF. Once training is completed, 50 XO Laptops will be donated to the school where the training is taking place and the remaining will be distributed to the other schools. Each of the head teachers of the 24 schools will receive a conventional laptop for monitoring learning progress and comparing knowledge gained through shared and individual usage.