The tiny South Pacific nation of Niue has become the first nation in the world to issue laptop computers to all its children.

Every primary and secondary school student has been given a rugged little green laptop, which has a wireless connection to the internet. The move is part of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) charitable programme, designed to help children’s learning.

The XO computers have been designed by OLPC to be “relatively waterproof and breakproof”.

The OLPC programme stems from research and development at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston in the US and has been supported by companies including Google and News Corp, the parent company of Times Online.

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