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English subtitles made by Alec McLure and Philip:

Anchorwoman: The Ceibal Plan’s Internet page gets up to 20,000 daily hits.

[Video switches to classroom – children with computers]

Voiceover: The question about the value of the Villa Cardal plan is directly
related to its technical possibilities.

[Switch to teacher]

Teacher: I think the ‘Internet theme’ is the most useful, followed by the
‘drawing theme’.

[Switch to girl looking at computer]

Voiceover: Currently, connectivity is only available at school. That
limitation, however, turned into a positive factor – children come back to
school in the afternoon to surf the web. Another complication is that usage
exceeds broadband bandwidth.

Woman: Yes, but outside of that, it’s exceeded expectations. We manage to a
tendency towards mistakes and hardware problems and we’ve logged almost no
incidents.

Voiceover: She said that there are strict controls on what pages children
can access on the Internet.

[Switch to story about taxes]

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