One Laptop Per Child

This is a program that hopes to give one laptop to every child in the world (as the name implies.) It seems that Uruguay is the first country in the world to achieve this goal and give one laptop to everyone of their primary school students. This is such a good program and I don't understand why many other countries aren't following Uruguay's example.

For many countries (ie the US, Canada, UK, Australia, Japan, Germany, etc) it would be so easy to make sure that everyone of their citizens under 18 has a laptop and yet they don't. Computers are no longer an expensive machine that only the few rich can afford. The very basic ones are pretty cheap and yet knowledge of computers is mandatory in today's society - both personal and professional.

Hopefully, other countries will see how successful it is in Uruguay and implement the same in their own countries. The more wealthy countries should go a step further and help the poorer countries. The Internet helps to make the world smaller and by making sure every child has a laptop will show them different cultures and help bridge the gaps in the differences and allow them to see the similarities.