«The government of Portugal has announced plans to launch a new education technology program called the Magellan Initiative, which aims to bring low-cost mobile computers to half a million young students. The laptops, which are being developed in collaboration with Intel, will be based on the company's Classmate PC reference design. (...)
The deal is a major victory for Intel's Classmate PC concept which has been battling for mindshare against the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) group, a nonprofit organization that emerged from the MIT media labs. (...)
Intel is also helping Portugal launch a new web-based interactive learning system called Intel skoool that is designed to provide resources for teaching math and science (but obviously not spelling). The web site was launched last November and continues to grow.»
[Ryan Paul, "Portugal's 500K Classmate PC order a nail in OLPC coffin" (A encomenda de Portugal de 500 mil computadores Classmate espeta um prego no caixão da OLPC), Arstechnica, 30-7-2008]: via http://www.zerodeconduta.blogs.sapo.pt/ (cortesia do leitor reprobo)
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