GOVERNMENT’S ambitious One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) programme that aims to gear Guyana’s development path on an Information
Communication Technology (ICT) trajectory is slated to be launched today.
The Guyana International Conference Centre (GICC) will be the venue for the launch of the programme which President
Bharrat Jagdeo, ministers of the government and others are expected to attend. The programme follows President Jagdeo’s vision for Guyana to be on par with the rest of the world in the ICT sector
which he has listed among the new growth poles for the country.
“It will be one of the new sectors that will generate greater disposable income, it will create thousands of jobs,”
President Jagdeo said.
Government has set 2015 as the target when every Guyanese becomes versed in the use of the computer and will complement
this plan with the roll out of the OLPF where 90,000 families receive one laptop free of cost.
In the first phase of the project thousands of laptops will be distributed to fulfill the broad objective of catalyzing
community growth and empowerment, stimulating intelligent young minds and enhancing capacity for learning.
On January 11, stakeholders on the OLPF programme met at a workshop at the Ministry of Health to share perspectives and
make recommendations on the enhancement of the programme. Mr. Sesh Sukhdeo is the programme’s Senior Project Manager.