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Nepal Nepal has been one of the earliest pilot and deployment sites. It has needed to develop its deployment plans, school server architecture, and strategies of interfacing with government. The gropu split to its own local group, OLE Nepal, in July, 2007. All of these became the templates for later works and deployments.

News and Rumors

• April 25, 2008: OLE Nepal launches wide trial in Bashuki and Bishwamitra schools

Additional Information Sources

• Mailing List: nepal@lists.laptop.org
• IRC Channel: #olpcnepal @ irc.freenode.net
• The large OLPC Nepal Category
• The unoffical OLPC News Nepal Section
• The OLE Nepal Website, especially their blog.
  • The School Server w/ emphasis on Moodle
  • Monthly Game Jams

Deployments and Trials

OLE Nepal in Bashuki and Bishwamitra schools

OLPC launched at Bashuki and Bishwamitra schools on April 25th, 2008. Open Learning Exchange Nepal (OLE Nepal) distributed a total of 135 OLPC laptops to grade 2 and 6 students from two schools in the outskirts of Kathmandu Valley. These were addition to the 22 laptops that were handed out to teachers from the schools during the teacher preparation program held a month ago. The laptop project was undertaken in partnership with Nepal government’s Department of Education (DoE). This project is part of OLE Nepal’s mission to increase quality of education while reducing current disparity in access and quality between school types, regions, and population groups by integrating ICT-based education in daily teaching-learning process. The laptops for the project were donated by the Danish IT Society in Copenhagen.

These pilots focus on integrating laptops into the Nepali educational system. The laptops and relevant software have been integrated into the Nepali curriculum and teaching process for grades two and six, subjects Mathematics and English.

Other Deployment Resources

• Pilot Sites
  • Pilot Selection Process
  • Jamirkot (Lalitpur), Bishwamitra Ganesh school
  • Lakuri Bhanjyang (Lalitpur), Shree Bashuki school
  • Financial Support for the pilots
  • Implementation Team
• Teacher Training
• Content Development
  • Content Development Principles
  • EPaati - suite of educational software for grades 2 and 6 developed by OLE Nepal
• Program Evaluation

=== Additional Tec

Groups

OLE Nepal

OLE Nepal is a local Nepali NGO that has a memorandum of understanding with Nepal's Department of Education to implement Nepal's pilots at Bashuki and Bishwamitra. For more information visit their wiki page or [website].

Nepal Government

Nepal Government has three-tier committees to implement OLPC in Nepal under Ministry of Education.

• Steering Committee -- Secretary of Ministry of Education chairs this
• Coordination Committee -- Director of Department of Education chairs this
• Task Force -- Deputy Director of Department of Education chairs this

Implementation

• Technical

Other Activities

• The School Server w/ emphasis on Moodle
• Monthly Game Jams

Planning

• Nepal:Pilot Project Plan
• Nepal:School Server Specification Out of date
• Nepal:School Server Specification - Phase 1 Design Out of date

These three links above are preserved to show the history but they are dated now and do not show actual deployment design. Gregorio 10:32, 17 March 2008 (EDT)

• Nepal: Testing and QA