Chinese co. donates 23,000 computers to ‘One Laptop’ project

Huibao Jin, laison for Great Wall, MCF China interacts with OLPF staffers. In the background are some of the Great Wall laptop computers. (GINA Photo)

Guyana is set to benefit from a donation of 23,000 computers from the People’s Republic of China for its One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) project.

A Government Information Agency (GINA) report said the computers were manufactured by the Great Wall Computer Shenzhen Company Limited (referred to as Great Wall Computer) under a bilateral agreement between the two countries and they will complement 5,000 machines that had already been delivered to the OLPF Secretariat in October.

Great Wall Computer was awarded the “Most Faithful Enterprise in 2012” at a summit held in Beijing in September and its potential to