User:Dagista

Dalarna University & Royal Institute of Technology_Sweden 
Contents of project proposal 

Detail description of Project proposal

General Overview

Profile of the Team

About us
Our team consists of two members.Tesfa Dagmawi Sebsibie, who is currently a student of Dalarna University (Sweden), working his master’s thesis. He posses a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering and two Master's Degree the first one in Industrial engineering and the second in mechanical Engineering-which is in progress. he has also awarded a certificate on computer maintenace and Networking. Furthermore, he has four(4) years of past practical experience while he was in his home country (Ethiopia) at Ministry of Agricultural and Rural development as well as in ministry of Defence. To mention some of the positions (1)He has worked as Junier computer science Instructor at two of the colleges and (2) He has also worked as the department head of management Information system (MIS)at Hormat Engineering factory. The above professional background and practical experiance will help him to support the project technically as well as managerially. Therefore, working towards our OLPCorps project proposal, Dagmawi is the coordinator of the team and he is responsible for activities related of project leader.

The second member of the team is, Tesfaye Demerew ketsela is currently a student of Royal Institute of Technology(KTH),Sweden doing his master’s thesis on distributed real-time network management. Furthermore he has a double masters degree, the first one is in computer science and the second one is in Network services and systems-which is in progress. He has also taken Short term IT trainings and certifications on CCNA1, CCNA2, CCNA3, CCNA4 and CCNP1, Oracle10g Database Administration, UNIX operating system, As/400 iseries Concepts and Facilities. He has five(5) years of practical experience on different position at Ethiopia Electric Power Corporation and other institutions as programmer, Computer Instructor and Database Administrator with a strong knowledge of software development with C++, RPG/400 and Java programming languages as well as Networking. Therefore, working towards our OLPCorps project proposal his professional background and practical experiance will help him to support the project technically as he is fully responsible for technical activities related of project.

Team Name

Ethio_Swed_ OLPCorps Team

Deployment Country

Ethiopia

Target School

Arsi Kersa primary school, munesa district

Target Class

kersa primary school of grade four students (Grade 4)

How will we work with children

we will work with children by allow peer collaboration.This will give children the opportunity to both teach and learn from their peers. we will assist students to involve their local community using interviewing the community, and/or researching their family. we will also support students, teachers, parents, and concerned experts to join and create new learning networks to improve educational thinking and practices as OLPC ensures that we will have our own laptops and high-bandwidth connectivity. We will help students learn using technology and reflect on this learning. We need to engage them in those learning methodologies that are enhanced by connected laptops: the design and construction of personally meaningful objects using a variety of computational and traditional materials—a more diversified, humanistic, holistic approach to learning than previously was logistically possible. when children bring the laptops home with them, many parents began adult education courses at night using the laptops. Many families chose to move into communities with laptop programs. Children develop the skills to do normal maintenance on their laptops. Most important, though, is that the children engage more deeply in learning and school work over the year; the computer helps deepen this interaction. make quality education critical for human and social development

Address how we will deal with children and learning with their schedule

we have arranged with our local partner known as ODA that has promised and confirmed on the letter of support, who has a close contact and working with the school, community as well as stackholders such as province education offices, teachers, and community representatives to arrange meetings which help us to create awareness and to organize childrens to return back from summer break so as to provide tutor according to the schedule. Furthermore, ODA also promised to arrange and provide facilities such as classrooms, desks, benches and office furniture’s. To arrange a schedule for the avalability of student during this period

Deployment and training will be school based as follows

1. Set meeting with our local partners (Oromia development association, Arsi branch), Eteya farmers coperative union, school mangement and comminity representative
2. Training of selected teachers (training of traines) sponsered by the local parteners, during working hours including weekends. The traind teachers will be responsibe to support and monitor students after Augest 09
3. Teaching students with the teachers that we traind them
4. Handout of computers and training of students and teachers in class, after school and at weekends
5. Continuing training and integration of XO’s after the end of August
6. promote collaborative learning and … provide individualized instruction
7. learning in laptop classrooms is often more self-directed
8. Teachers in laptop classrooms are more willing to assign presentations and multimedia projects to students, and score them
9. students as well as teachers gather and move around to work on projects this frees teachers to roam about the room helping those who have problems or need remediation
10. Teachers in laptop classrooms are more willing to assign presentations and multimedia projects to students, and score them using customized, project-driven rubrics and even self-assessments

Who is the local partner

Eteya Farmers cooperative Union , Oromia Development association Arsi branch and one of our local university, rift vally University college,will help us to conduct the project in sharing their knowledg and materials

How will you follow-up (Supervision)

We will train students and teachers parallelly, and enabling teachers to fully take care of teaching. Farmers cooperative Union and Oromia Development association as local partners, will take care of the monitoring capable of maintaining the deployment after we leave, oversee and support the program after August assisted by Oromia Development association, which will provide back-up, further training and supervision and which will liaise with the local community

Where will you store the equipment during the deployment

At our local partner store

Describe your project's financial needs and provide a brief budget for the project

S/No	Activities	Duration	Unit Cost	Total Cost	Remark
1	Transport:Flight 1: Stockholm, Sweden (STO) to Kigali, Rwanda (KGL) Flight 2: Kigali, Rwanda (KGL) to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (ADD) Flight 3: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (ADD) to Stockholm, Sweden (STO)	06-Jun ' 09 (14 hr 40 min) 18-Jun ' 09 (2 hr 30 min) 11-sep ' 09 (19 hr)	$2,111.70	$4,223.40	row 1, cell 6
2	Transport of 100 Laptops, server and accessories				row 2, cell 6
3	Internal Transport (to and from the target place as well as to/from the airport in the host country)				row 3, cell 6
4	Accommodation in Ethiopia	row 4, cell 3	row 4, cell 4	row 4, cell 5	row 4, cell 6
5	Expenses for teachers, Selecte Community members and volunteers	row 5, cell 3	row 5, cell 4	row 5, cell 5	row 5, cell 6
6	Expense for training and Food/drinks/handhout	row 6, cell 3	row 6, cell 4	row 6, cell 5	row 6, cell 6
7	a specific learning project which requies funding (e.g. transportation, materials, etc)
8	repair and maintanence costs	row 6, cell 3	row 6, cell 4	row 6, cell 5	row 6, cell 6
9	monthly internet connections	row 6, cell 3	row 6, cell 4	row 6, cell 5	row 6, cell
10	Training Workshop in Rwanda	row 6, cell 3	row 6, cell 4	row 6, cell 5	row 6, cell
11	Cost for food in Ethiopia	row 6, cell 3	row 6, cell 4	row 6, cell 5	row 6, cell

Research your university's grant programs, student associations, alumni networks, and other avenues of funding to sustain your deployment

we are discussing with our partnering institution to find funding to sustain the project

Communication - do you share the language of the school or community where you will be working

The languge of the community is our native languge so there is no problem with this regards