‘One Laptop’ project under review

Minister of State Joseph Harmon with One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) Project Manager Margo Boyce during Wednesday’s visit. (Ministry of the Presidency photo)

The controversial One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) project is under review, according to the Ministry of the Presidency, which says a tour of the project’s office has revealed an inventory of “unserviceable and defective” computers.

According to a press release from the Ministry of the Presidency, on Wednesday, July 8th, a team headed by Minister of State Joseph Harmon visited the project’s Forshaw Street, Queenstown office as part of the ongoing process of understanding what is happening with the project—which was initiated under the Bharrat Jagdeo-led PPP/C government in 2011—and E-Governance.

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