As part of its comprehensive educational technology program, Portuguese Prime Minister José Sócrates and Intel Chairman Craig Barrett announced today the country will provide half a million Intel Corp classmate PCs to school children in the country under its new Magellan Initiative (Iniciativa Magalhães).
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Future Intel Classmate PCs to be based on AtomIntel readies global push for Classmate PCIntel resigns One Laptop Per Child in favor of its own Classmate PC programIntel's quad core coming in NovemberThe program, launched today, aims to deliver the full-featured student laptops especially developed by Intel for education, and complements Portugal’s year-old e-School (“e-Escola”) project, which provides educational notebooks and Internet access to teachers and students for the secondary level of school education.
Both programs align with the government’s “Technology Plan – Portugal” (Plano Tecnológico – Portugal), which is meant to increase the use of computers and the Internet in order to bring to Portuguese citizens the latest technology and support them to participate in a knowledge-based economy.
“We enthusiastically support Portugal’s commitment to a comprehensive technological plan for education. The government’s priority to make technology accessible to Portugal’s schools and children is a model for governments and corporations working together to prepare future generations for long-term opportunities” Barrett said in a statement, who is traveling to Portugal on behalf of Intel and is also the chairman of United Nations Global Alliance for ICT and Development (UN GAID).
Portugal Prime Minister Sócrates commented, “This new collaboration with Intel underscores Portugal’s commitment to advance quickly toward a knowledge-based economy. By equipping our schools with state-of-the-art computing technology and Internet connectivity, we hope to hasten the transition to economic models that benefit our citizens.”
Intel said it will provide technology advice and support to the Portuguese government in the management, promotion and implementation of the e-Escola and Magellan initiatives, and said it will create a “Competence Centre” in Portugal to expand the use of mobile PCs and Internet access and use that knowledge to replicate pilot projects in other countries.
Prior to today’s launch, Intel noted that Barrett met with Sócrates to discuss the prime minister’s plan to invest in the education for Portuguese students and to provide them with tools to participate in the 21st century economy with key priorities including education, foreign investment, creating favorable conditions for entrepreneurs, and promoting growth and jobs.
For more EDN coverage of Intel's classmate PC, see:
Future Intel Classmate PCs to be based on AtomIntel readies global push for Classmate PCIntel resigns One Laptop Per Child in favor of its own Classmate PC programIntel's quad core coming in NovemberThe program, launched today, aims to deliver the full-featured student laptops especially developed by Intel for education, and complements Portugal’s year-old e-School (“e-Escola”) project, which provides educational notebooks and Internet access to teachers and students for the secondary level of school education.
Both programs align with the government’s “Technology Plan – Portugal” (Plano Tecnológico – Portugal), which is meant to increase the use of computers and the Internet in order to bring to Portuguese citizens the latest technology and support them to participate in a knowledge-based economy.
“We enthusiastically support Portugal’s commitment to a comprehensive technological plan for education. The government’s priority to make technology accessible to Portugal’s schools and children is a model for governments and corporations working together to prepare future generations for long-term opportunities” Barrett said in a statement, who is traveling to Portugal on behalf of Intel and is also the chairman of United Nations Global Alliance for ICT and Development (UN GAID).
Portugal Prime Minister Sócrates commented, “This new collaboration with Intel underscores Portugal’s commitment to advance quickly toward a knowledge-based economy. By equipping our schools with state-of-the-art computing technology and Internet connectivity, we hope to hasten the transition to economic models that benefit our citizens.”
Intel said it will provide technology advice and support to the Portuguese government in the management, promotion and implementation of the e-Escola and Magellan initiatives, and said it will create a “Competence Centre” in Portugal to expand the use of mobile PCs and Internet access and use that knowledge to replicate pilot projects in other countries.
Prior to today’s launch, Intel noted that Barrett met with Sócrates to discuss the prime minister’s plan to invest in the education for Portuguese students and to provide them with tools to participate in the 21st century economy with key priorities including education, foreign investment, creating favorable conditions for entrepreneurs, and promoting growth and jobs.
