Nepal

2007 status: green
green

Current Status

Nepal's Department of Education is planning to pilot OLPC at a test school in April of 2008. Nepal's Minister of Education, Pradip Nepal, strongly supports the OLPC program.

Currently, the pilot is planned at a Kathmandu-area school. The Danish IT Society has generously donated roughly 200 XO laptops for the pilot.

There are a number of organizations working on the OLPC project in Nepal

• OLPC_Nepal and
• OLE Nepal[1]
• Nepal Wireless
• FOSS Nepal
• Nepal's High Level Commission for Information Technology

Activities

• Hand-Writing Recognition
• Localization
• The School Server w/ emphasis on Moodle
• Monthly Game Jams

Planning

• Nepal:Pilot Project Plan
• Nepal:School Server Specification

Getting Involved

• Mailing Lists
  • OLPC Nepal
  • OLPC Nepal Developers
  • OLE Nepal