I found so many interesting topics on your blog. From the tons of comments on your articles, I guess I'm not the only one who respects your work. Keep up the great articles.  

Thanks for posting, I look forward to reading more of Latin American coverage.

Glad to see the interest in computer science. I have noticed the gradual increase of interest in the field.

I have been surfing online more than three hours today, yet it's been so difficult to find content like this. In my opinion, if all bloggers made good content as you did, the internet will be much more useful than ever before.

You make an interesting point and I agree that advanced countries such as the US are quickly gaining momentum. I agree with your post that developing countries may forever be in their shadow, it would simply take too long to catch up.

I like the foundation of this blog has a great variety of comments. It has a several points of view it broadens the subject, it is very interesting and I would like learn more. It's great to see a country making its own way and realizing the importance that technology has on advancement. I hope to see some more updates on how things are progressing.

Granted that technology has become the lifeblood of any business regardless if it is big or small. The development of our technology, is great but realizing that it was the administrations desire to be in charge of developing the Internet is simply unjust. It is the people that will end up paying the bill. Why are we comparing ourselves to governments in Korea and Japan—granted that they may have a "better" network. If the government pays for and controls something it is only a matter of time before they start to place restrictions on the American people taking more of our freedom away.

The internet gave us a new way to grew our economies and raise people's awareness.

Thanks for a great post!

Uruguay has been improving not just their country but the reputation of Latin America. They are a very impressive nation especially in the midst of these tough economic times.

I believe that children in civilized countries still have access to computers I do not think this is a problem it helps develop their future.

Without the technology and the lack of infrastructure it might make them one of the backward countries I am sure necessary steps are evaluated into the right direction to tackle all of the problems.

Thanks for sharing this, I would love to follow this story.

The digital democracy and openness of the people of Uruguay to embrace such technologies is a good advantage in terms of educational advancements. However, we must all know that the influx of technology without proper education in terms of its use and its encompassing ethics can also lead these people to be misguided. Technologies may have a higher propensity of misuse.  What must be done is that we must raise the social-cultural awareness of the people first and conduct a study of how receptive they are with the current technologies.

I believe that children in civilized countries still have access to computers and do not think this is a problem. Technology contributes to the welfare of a country like Uruguay. Other sectors must be developed if we want this country to be successful.

So happy to read this, thank you for this article.

I hope that this is not only in the Uruguay, hope this applies all over the world. How beautiful life is if this will be implemented. It really helps to the students, youths and other children in their learnings.

Great article really enjoyed reaing this.

What a pity I didn’t find your article earlier. I needed the Internet research on Uruguayan economy.

Someone must take a stand to make things work out especially in the development of the country. This article is very interesting and leaders in third world countries that are underdeveloped must read this article. There are numerous foundations around the world, they go to third world countries to help in the development of their nation. Uruguay is very successful in developing their country with innovation. They are very serious in their program especially educating children in the future. They also give computers to children and teach them how to use it so that they will become computer literate. I also have read research papers about third world countries that are striving hard to conquer poverty and corruption.

I wanted to thank you for this great read!! I definitely enjoy every little bit of it :) I have you bookmarked your website to check out the upcoming post.

Pretty good post. I just stumbled upon your blog and wanted to say that I have really enjoyed reading your blog posts. Any way I'll be subscribing to your feed and I hope you post again soon.

I currently work in a country where resources are: chalk, blackboard, card, felt pens, cardboard, paper and pencils, some limited realia and the creative brains and the talent of the teachers. Yes, the training college has SOME resources, which the aid agency have provided and these will stay, but that is where they stay - at the training college. In the actual classroom, there is a floor and maybe some walls and often a leaky roof since it rains here a lot. But there are no CD player unless the teacher provides it and limited power outlets. So what do you do for resources under these circumstances when teaching? You do a lot of hard work to provide an intersting useful lesson. Because tachers don't have access to all the mod cons, such as electronic white boards - in fact, what is a white board - then you work with what you have. It's a challenge, but the upshot is that you learn to find new ways of doing things and this is what creative, lateral thinking minds do.

I completely agree with the idea that competing with a large web application is not easy, but this is a problem with straight-out capitalism. Being online simply reduces one of the costs. If I wanted to start a restaurant it would cost a lot of money. If I wanted to start an online restaurant it would be... slightly cheaper? There are also other significant problems with online applications such as vendor lock-in, which still happens online, and in a way it's far more pervasive since these apps are growing very quickly compared to ye olde applications.

For the second year in a row, computer science enrollments in the U.S. have increased, according to an annual study of enrollment trends, giving hope that the degree program is seeing a revival that's here to stay. The decline in technology-related enrollments that began with the dot-com bust has been worrisome to business and government leaders. President Obama, in particular, has pushed for programs to train more secondary school teachers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. He has gone so far as to urge students to eschew finance degrees in favor of technology areas.

f It’s hard to find knowledgeable people on this topic, but you sound like you know what you’re talking about! Thanks Don’t stop writing, you’ve given me lots of good info!

Good post and a fantastic read. You have raised some valid points. Great work, keep it up.

very interesting article ... Interesting point of view. Congratulations. It was worth reading.

Interesting post. I have been wondering about this issue,so thanks for posting. I’ll likely be coming back to your blog. Keep up great writing. Brad

Nowadays, computers and other technologies are a must for all people.

Very interesting article.

Excellent post, thank you very much for taking the time to share with those who are starting on the subject. Greetings

Congratulations to Uruguay this is the way to go. Portugal has a similar program where children from elementary school have access to a computer which can cost from 0 to 50 euros depending on the familiar economic level. 

A great and noble endeavor, but this should've been done at least 2 years ago. A lot of african countries are wired by now. Nonetheless, I still think they will benefit a lot from it, just wish it had been done sooner. 

I think its absolutely great that kids in Uruguay will get some computers! I remember when i first got my computer, it was amazing :D Even though i didn't know much on how do you use it and stuff, it was still great. Just hope those kids don't become hackers :P Andy 

the program really is a serious way to make education on students about computer and will make them computer literate. ensuring them this education will really lead them to a bright new future. 

This article simply ROCKS ! That was a great read for me. keep it up with all the good work..

Good post….thanks for sharing.. very useful for me i will bookmark this for my future needed. thanks for a great source. 

We all know that as time passes, technology will become cheaper. Look at the new netbooks that they have out now. Those things are getting really cheap, and should be able to give more kids these computers because the price keeping going down.

this is so good to see. You should get bill gates involved in this. He is donating alot of money now for this.

Wow, what a great post, thanks for sharing! 

Thank you for this article! Implementation of CEIBAL is amazing and ambitious project!