Deployments
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There are over 1.4 million XOs in the field as of December, 2009. The information below represents the number of XOs delivered, shipped or ordered for each country or region. Not all XOs are currently in schools. Where possible, the status of each country and additional details on their software and deployment status is included at the bottom (and on the detailed deployment page).
All information is tentative and subject to change without notice.
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[edit] Preparing for your own deployment
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[edit] Deployment data
This is information queried from the semantic annotations of pages in Category:Deployments. It was last updated in August 2009. You can sort this table by clicking on the arrows in the column headings.
[edit] Deployment status
| Deployment status | |
|---|---|
| OLPC -Sana'a-Yemen | School - To be confirmed Laptops - 2*25 |
| OLPC Afghanistan | Started with Paiwastoon. Developed offline digital library system, sustainable human power system, pure wireless class2class (freifunk) networking |
| OLPC Australia | Started by Barry Vercoe and the separate non-profit OLPC Australia; the current group is unaffiliated with Pia Waugh and her early trial deployments in Australia. |
| OLPC Birmingham | Will deploy build 714.
Also using customized versions of FF, flash, mplayer Will use School Server 0.4. Deployment started target of 14K XOs total. |
| OLPC Cambodia | Exact deployment date not set yet. 1000 of 3200 laptops have already been deployed to schools, however. |
| OLPC Chiapas | Current status: Laptops are already being used at the three schools. |
| OLPC China | Getting a Chinese localized keyboard for a larger deployment; this was a stopgap measure to support students in Sichuan whose original schools had been affected by the earthquakes in 2008. |
| OLPC Colombia | 230 XOs deployed in Marina North school outside Medellin.
School Server planned for Marina North. Exact build tbd. 680 XOs deployed by Pies descalzos foundation at three schools on barranquilla, Bogota and Quibdo (Build 703) School Server planned for the three schools Large opportunity under consideration in Colombian Department Additional laptops rolled out in 2009 |
| OLPC Ethiopia | Started with GTZ and the Ministry of Education. |
| OLPC France | 100 XOs was deployed between July and August 2009
They are used at school from October 2009 A full report on this deployment is downloadable here News feed on the deployment is here |
| OLPC Friends | Deployments handled by OLPC Friends - See [[1]] |
| OLPC G1G1 | The 2007 Give One, Get One program ran until December 31st, 2007. See G1G1 2007 |
| OLPC G1G1 2008 | The 2008 Give One, Get One program ran until January 5th, 2009. See G1G1 2008 |
| OLPC Ghana | Stalled on government politics (corruption charges), despite the agreement. |
| OLPC Guatemala | Planned for "before 3rd quarter 2009"; funded by Claro, same company as Telmex which does Mochila Digital in Mexico. |
| OLPC Haiti | Target 703 or later <br />
Target of 13K XOs Several dozen deployed, no firm date for the rest right now. |
| OLPC India | Khairat - 31 XOs (1 teacher). Currently running 656. No Internet, had it but offline now. School server with very old build. Katha has 30. Vasant Valley School is a new champion with its Director Arun Kapur taking the lead in taking it forward. |
| OLPC Iraq | slowly adding classes every few months. |
| OLPC Italy | Bernie is not entirely innocent of this deployment! They are using Italian as their language, I believe, despite issues raised on this page. |
| OLPC Lebanon | Several hundred XOs delivered to refugee camp in Lebanon in September. Believe they were given out with build 656 but should be upgraded once Arabic support is confirmed better in 8.2. Another 1000 out of 3500 total given to a refugee camp in the Palestinian territories. |
| OLPC Mali | This deployment has finished. Salimata Bangoura announced a final report in French and English on April 1, 2009. |
| OLPC Misc | These include some smaller gives, and smaller individual projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America. In Oceania, these miscellaneous laptops are rolled into the total for OLPC Oceania; those received via the developers or contributors program are listed under OLPC small groups. Small projects that did not use international English keyboards have their own pages. |
| OLPC Mongolia | 3000 XOs have been deployed. Some XOs have now upgraded to 8.2 for testing. |
| OLPC Nicaragua | Interested in OpenWijs and Waveplace; working with regional teachers. |
| OLPC Nigeria | A larger deployment, independent of the initial Galadima pilot project. |
| OLPC Nigeria/Jimeta | We are in the middle of an intense week of teacher training. We are focusing on both the constructivist learning model, basics of the XO laptop and sugar based activities, and basic computer use. We are simultaneously building infrastructure at the primary school to support the pilot project including a PV (Solar) power array and VSAT hookup. |
| OLPC Niue | Information came from http://pipka.org/blog/2008/08/16/olpc-in-niue/. Laptop numbers here may be double-counted under OLPC Oceania. |
| OLPC Oceania | Plan to use a School Server, possibly 0.4. Some islands may be using pre-release 8.2 image. |
| OLPC Palestinian territories | A thousand XOs out of 7000 total for a refugee camp in the Palestinian territories. The first machines arrived in early 2009 with 656 installed, but are being updated. |
| OLPC Paraguay | Teacher training wrapping up. Plan to deploy 4K XOs in schools in Q1 2009. |
| OLPC Peru | 40K x XOs running 656 and Peru activities http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Peru_activity_pack
Next batch ~100K run 8.1.2 with a special Peru activity pack and content. More coming throughout 2009
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| OLPC Rwanda | 5K laptops have arrived.
5K more coming in November, 2008. Schools will teach in English, French and Kinyarwanda. More arrived in May 2009, and another 100k are in production. No School Server planned Much of the deployment will be off net. 96% of primary schools don't have electricity, no server or wireless network in the moment, average of 1k students per school and 70 per classroom. Powerpoint Presentation, Bootstrapping OLPC deployment in Rwanda, from Juliano Bittencourt & Brian Jordan, members of the OLPC Learning Team, who assisted with this large-scale deployment. |
| OLPC South Africa | 650 XOs |
| OLPC Sri Lanka | With World Bank and OLPC Lanka Foundation support. |
| OLPC UK/Pilots/London2009 | Deployed build 802 |
| OLPC Uruguay | Currently running customized version of 656 Using non-standard School Server based on Debian |
| OLPCorps 2009 | OLPCorps teams began deploying in late June 2009. |
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[edit] See also
- Deployment Guide, a generalized guide to a large-scale deployment of one laptop per child.
- Deployments support for information and feedback on technical support issues associated with country deployments.
- A Google map based on this deployment info
- A world map based on this deployment info
