Rodrigo Arboleda, the leader of the program ‘one laptop per child’ world wide has ended his four day visit in the country with a call to the President at Village Urugwiro.
During courtesy visit to the president at Village Urugwiro, Arboleda thanked the president for the steps in promoting education through IT program of giving a laptop per child in lower levels of education.
Arboleda who also delivered to the president, the message of Prof. Nicholas Negroponte, the founder of the program said that ‘one laptop per child program’ is running well in Rwanda and that what is missing is supporting it to be more successful.
The Minister of State for Primary and Secondary Education, Dr. Mathias Harebamungu added that the program has been extended to 128 primary schools across the country.
He said that the ministry is planning to use it for data storing by pupils in primary schools adding that the program will be using the server machine to distribute lessons to these laptops.
Harebamungu also said that 65.000 laptops have been distributed and that the ministry is planning to distribute at least 100, 000 laptops in 150 primary schools before the end of this year.
One Laptop per Child program was founded in 2007 to oversee the creation of an affordable educational device for use in the developing world. It also focuses on fund-raising and the development of future learning technologies.
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