Heathkit Idea Lives on in Thailand

[Brian AF4K]

Way ahead of us actually - I don't know of any government in the 
world that ever passed out 250,000 free heathkits!

Would have been great though!

On 13 Oct 2005 at 13:06, digital-conjurers at ADELPHIA.NE wrote:

>   The Heathkit concept is alive in Thailand, per their Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
> 
> Improving Thai students' access to information technology, especially computers and the Internet, was key to "the foundation of our future society and economy," he said.
> 
> The Thai government aims to provide 250,000 computers to schools across the country by June 2006 in the form of ready-to-assemble desk-top kits that would be put together by students themselves as a cost-saving measure, which would also provide pupils with a knowledge of the inner workings of the machines.
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051011/tc_afp/thailandunesco;_ylt=Ah8QHmNyC7AlG2_tw.CmBP8jtBAF;_ylu=X3oDMTA5aHJvMDdwBHNlYwN5bmNhdA--
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> Interesting...
> 
> -Lin/KJ6EF
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