OLPC:Outreach

Dear friends,

Starting this Spring, we started the OLPCorps program to stimulate grassroots laptop deployments in Africa.  We solicited proposals from student teams around the world interested in carrying out a small OLPC deployment in Africa.  Teams were required to have a relationship with a local NGO that plans to support their work in the future.   [link to CfP]

30 of the teams were selected to receive 100 laptops and reimbursement of up to $10,000 of expenses.  The program is being run out of the OLPC center in Kigali, Rwanda this summer.  Representatives from every team and from a number of countries are attending a ten-day learning and deployment workshop in the Kigali OLPC center during the first week of June.  [link to project list]

This is another step towards realizing our vision of improving access to connected laptops for students in the least developed parts of the world.  [This year the program was made possible with generous support from <sponsors>, but] we need your support to help this project expand in future years.  Please help us build on these efforts with a donation. <link to donate>  

And help us build our local networks -- spread the word to people you know interested in the 17 countries deploying XOs! <link to this notice>

Sincerely,

Matt Keller
for the OLPCorps team

Coordination

The OLPC outreach group keeps track of public announcements, press releases, public news sites and blogs devoted to OLPC, and public profiles and communication channels for OLPC and its major partners.