One Laptop per Student Initiative

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is a small Eastern Caribbean nation of around 100,000 people. In 2014 its Ministry of Education set out to give every secondary-school student a laptop, aiming to close a persistent digital divide in a school system spread across the mainland and Grenadine islands.
The programme launched publicly on 24 June 2014 with the distribution of 317 Acer Windows 8 laptops to students at West St. George Secondary School, brokered through the UK-based Dennis Publishing with Microsoft and Acer, and set a target of 12,500 laptops to cover the entire secondary-school population. Distribution continued in further phases, extending to tablets for Grades 5-6 primary students and Community College students; a further shipment of tablets was reported arriving in April 2021, even as the country was managing the disruption of the La Soufrière volcanic eruption that month.
The Ministry of Education's own website today describes secondary-level laptop coverage as effectively universal ('each student now owns a laptop'), and the 12,500-laptop target and programme's existence are independently corroborated by local news, an international news magazine, and a 2024 Caribbean Telecommunications Union / ECLAC regional review of Caribbean digital-inclusion initiatives.
No public source discloses the programme's budget, a cumulative total of devices actually distributed against the 12,500 target, or any independent evaluation of its effect on learning outcomes — a gap noted even in public comments on the ministry's own OLPC webpage. The programme should be read as a long-running, well-corroborated device-access initiative without a published outcomes evaluation.

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