Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis on Monday was briefed by Economy and Finance Minister Yiannis Papathanassiou and Education Minister Aris Spiliotopoulos, during a meeting at the Maximos Mansion government house.
Afterwards, Spiliotopoulos told reporters that 126,000 PCs will be allocated to 7th grade pupils around the country, with coupons being distributed that allow them to acquire the PC and 16 included software programmes.
Papathanassiou said the programme is budgeted at 68 million euros and will be funded by 4th CSF monies.
Additionally, junior high school textbooks will be distributed in electronic formats.
01.09.2009
