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Intel Donates 900 Laptops to Ministry of Education

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007

The international computer component-manufacturer Intel has donated 900 of its lightweight laptop computers to the Ministry of Public Education to further the ministry’s drive to make this country’s youngest generation computer literate as fast as is economically possible. Each $300 Classmate comes with two gigabytes of memory and contains a 900 megahertz processor.
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UCR to Help Overhaul the Public Security Ministry

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007

By Leland Baxter-Neal
Tico Times Staff
At the behest of the Public Security Ministry, researchers at the University of Costa Rica (UCR) are preparing a total redesign of the ministry in hopes of making it a leaner, meaner crime-fighting machine, according to Mayela Cubillo, director of the University of Costa Rica’s (UCR) School of Public Administration.
The […]