Laptops for kids in Norfolk

Posted on 5 Jan 2009 by Peter Cruickshank
  • Norfolk children get £310,000 of free laptops • The Register
    The Department for Children, Schools and Families has given Norfolk County Council £310,000 to purchase laptops for more than 400 children. It will be used to target groups of young people who live in deprived areas, who are persistent absentees, traveller children, those in alternative education and those with English as a second language. Similar to a scheme that MEMORI is working on in Flanders…?
    (tags: project:smartcities community england&wales)

Original story on KableNet here

About Peter Cruickshank

Lecturer in the School of Computing and a member of the Centre for Social Informatics at Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland. Interested in information systems, learning, politics, society, security and where they intersect. My attempts at rounding out my character include food, cinema, running, history and, together with my lovely wife, bringing up a cat and a couple of kids.
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