The « Informatique pour tous » Programme of 1985
- A voluntarist programme for the introduction of information and communication technologies in the French education system.
- Based on nanoréseaux allowing 8 familial computers to communicate with a professional PC compatible computer.
- It was partly influenced by the pedagogical concepts of the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
- It anticipated some ideas of the OLPC project (One Laptop Per Child) despite limits of contemporary hardware.
References
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_informatique_pour_tous
Its history has been published in 2005 by Jean-Pierre Archambault
http://lamaisondesenseignants.com/download/document/jpa54ipt.pdf.