The tiny South Pacific nation of Niue is claiming the crown of being the first nation in the world to give laptop computers to all its schoolchildren, reports Agence France Presse in a story on IOL.
Not that it has that many. The CIA World Factbook puts the island’s size at 1.5 times the size of Washington, D.C., and its declining population at an estimated 1,444.
This week every primary and secondary school student was given one of the XO laptops from the One Laptop Per Child program after 500 were donated to the nation. BBC News reports Niue made free wireless Internet service available to its inhabitants in 2003.
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