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...Uruguayan program, which will provide hundreds of thousands of laptops to Uruguay’s schoolchildren, does so at a reasonable initial cost of $260 per child plus $21 per year per child to maintain the program. At less than $300 per child and less than five percent of Uruguay’s total education budget, their government has managed to give the country’s youth a chance to become technologically proficient in a world where a basic understanding of technology is quickly becoming a prerequisite to success...
...structure of the program has less tangible, but still important, benefits to children beyond the fact that it grants them access to technological literacy. Providing children with laptops of their own gives them a sense of agency that simply cannot be achieved through computer labs or computer classes alone. Personal ownership gives these children the ability to access a wealth of information about themselves and their surroundings outside of the classroom as well...
...program must overcome several obstacles, like training less technologically adept teachers to use the computers in classrooms and providing adequate Internet access. There will likely be problems with maintaining the computers and making sure that students have access to new computers when some of the machines inevitably meet an untimely end. As The Economist notes, “When poor, rural children wreck theirs, they often prefer to keep their new status symbol clutched to their chests than risk the postal service not returning it promptly from the central maintenance centre.” These concerns will need...
...once worked as an aide to former U.S. Senator Paul Sarbanes, says that paying for medical treatment in Mexico could save Medicare almost a quarter of the average cost for most procedures. "My research, as well as the research of others, shows that health care in Mexico costs less than a third of that in the U.S.," Crist says. (See a guide to what health-care reform really means...
...When it comes to energy, California is not just ahead of the game; it's playing a different game. Its carbon emissions per capita are less than half the U.S. average. And from 2006 to '08, it attracted $3 of every $5 invested in U.S. clean tech - five times as much as the No. 2 state. It's by far the national leader in green jobs, green patents, supply from renewables and savings from efficiency. It's also leading the way toward electric cars, zero-emission homes, advanced biofuels and a smarter grid: its electric utilities plan to install smart...