One laptop per child: Vision vs. reality

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 66-73

  Kraemer, Kenneth L ^a,b   Dedrick, Jason ^b   Sharma, Prakul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CUTS; IT INDUSTRY; PILOT PROJECTS;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MICROCOMPUTERS; RURAL AREAS;

LAPTOP COMPUTERS;

EID: 67449107747     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1516046.1516063     Document Type: Article

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