Via Stephen Downes comes this link to a report by Scott Gilbertson on the issue of 150 OLPC laptops to all the children in the small Uruguayan town of Villa Cardal. Meanwhile, further North there is a state of emergency owing to disastrous floods. In Mercedes, in the Soriano Department, where my uncle lives - he is known, indirectly, to participants in the Collaborative Approaches to the Management of E-Learning (CAMEL) project and its various "spawnings" - the Rio Negro rose by 9.8 m earlier this month , and was still 8 m above its normal level several days after it reached its peak. In a neighbouring department (Durazno) the River Yi, which feeds the Rio Negro, was 13 m above its normal level. Some parts the country had an average of over 10mm of rain per hour for 3 whole days Below are pictures of some street scenes in Mercedes.
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