23,000 Great Wall laptops to arrive in January – company rep visits OLPF

GUYANA will benefit from a bilateral agreement between the People’s Republic of China and the Government of Guyana, whereby 23,000 laptops manufactured by the Great Wall Computer Shenzhen Company Limited (referred to as the Great Wall Computer Company) will be donated. altThe computers are expected to arrive in January, 2013, and will add to the 5,000 which were delivered to the One Laptop Per Family Project (OLPF) Secretariat in October.
Great Wall Computer was awarded the “Most Faithful Enterprise in 2012” at a summit held in Beijing in September, and was lauded as the potential force of development that will lay a solid foundation for the future.
Huibao Jin, liaison for Great Wall on Wednesday paid a visit to the OLPF’s Queenstown office, to inspect the facility and to get a first-hand view of the secretariat’s daily functions.
In an interview with the Government Information Agency (GINA), Jin, while expressing his satisfaction with the operations of the OLPF, pointed out that through collaboration, the objective of the project can be achieved.
“The purpose of the visit is to get some knowledge, how the OLPF secretariat is operating, and also through this exercise from our perspective… we were expecting to see an organization of a few persons… we are pleased,” he said.
Jin stated that the collaboration with the Guyana Government has been successful, thus far, and his government is committed to future partnership.
altalt“This is a very good and sound project, so we are on the right path. We also learnt some details how the laptops are being distributed and how the software is being developed to have students learn curriculum,” he said.
Margo Boyce, OLPF Project Manager, disclosed that for 2012, 22,000 units have been distributed and by the end of December, 27,000 will be in the hands of beneficiaries countrywide.
“It is expected that we will start distribution of the Great Wall computers in Region 4 in January 2013….we are on schedule with distribution and I would just like to remind the public that OLPF is real and is continuing to make a difference,” she said.
During the tour, Jin and his team visited the customer services department, warehouse (bond), community liaison department, public relations, accounts, training, data entry, registry and verification departments.
The One Laptop Per Family Project, brainchild of former President, Bharrat Jagdeo was launched in January 2011, and was conceptualised as a national development imperative and brings Guyana on par with the developed world in the area of Information and Communications Technology (ICT). Ninety thousand families will benefit from this initiative.

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