...The argument for olpc is simple: many children—especially those in rural parts of developing countries—have so little access to school—i
...d Thailand. A modest allocation of machines will be used to seed developer communities in a number of other countries in early 2007. A commercial version of the m
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...wledge. I can't help thinking that it is unlikely that these "third-world" communities have had much genuine say in the OLPC project's design and planning... Once
...in American schools, towns and cities are almost non-existent in the poor rural areas where the XO laptop is intended to go.
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...rying and failing to bring computer training to schools in underprivileged communities.
...ans' daily reality of poverty and hopelessness, and rural America has many communities where poverty is not uncommon.
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=== For local communities ===
...LPC, started September 2008 an educational eTwinning project in El Rama, a rural city in Nicaragua with 54.000 inhabitants. The project was funded by the lo
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...bodia. http://www.parish-without-borders.net/cditt/cambodia/dailylife/2004/rural-internet.htm
...network across a town. This would very much needed in order to connect a communities of laptops together.
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Rema: The rural village of Rema is the first African village equipped by solar energy. On S
Two rural schools:
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...n one of the African countries. Preference will be given to deployments in rural areas.
less priviledged children in Makoko rural area of Lagos, Nigeria. The project we
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...ests that the impact of empowering children, their teachers, families, and communities with computers and communication has a net positive impact on learning, soc
..."in other country" production shop in a slum ('favela' in Brazil) or poor rural community? This would provide jobs, which are as immediately important as (
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...s 1st through 12th grade in the same school. They exist primarily in small communities and thus enable 1:1 in entire schools, for all grades, and for the entire c
...ft. That said, we've seen no theft in our pilot projects in places such as rural Cambodia.
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...to respond to local situations, particularly with regards to disadvantaged communities is the OLPCorps recurring network-learning program for kids.
...help them to be in a better position to make a future difference in their communities and the world. It is expected that by providing such information to young m
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...ovided by the OLPC project would help to make recordings accessible to the communities as well as empower the youngest generations to use modern technologies to e
...achers will assist students in gaining an understanding of how their rural communities are interconnected with others as they investigate the natural world and sc
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...oviding high-bandwidth connectivity to enable the development of knowledge communities, we now have the means to address seemingly intractable and critically impo
...see exactly how the software was created and to enter into the development communities so that they too can create software and content. While not everyone will d
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#8 Support Volunteer @ Rural School: XO Integration+Outreach - La Romana, Dominican Republic
<CanoeBerry> 4. Increase school attendance rate in rural schools.
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...in which 10,000 laptops were deployed to 10 schools, urban,semi-urban and rural, the government of Rwanda aimed bigger and by 2011 accomplished a deploymen
...g of educational conditions for teachers, children, schools in general and communities through the use of the XO.
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...their own worlds using digital media technology, and lead others in their communities.” '''''
..., explore the web to cull information, and contribute to the informational communities around the world, using web-based and wiki media and tools:
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...in 2000 as part of an effort by Bernie Krisher to reach out to children in rural Cambodia. They brought laptop computers to the school as part of their effo
...for the local children. The remaining 130 machines went to both urban and rural schools, orphanages and educational centers for children.
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# '''OLPC Kenya''' includes a number of small deployment communities: Asilong in West Pokot, three OLPCorps projects (Kibwezi, Mombasa-North, an
Kibwezi is a small rural town located in the arid region of Kenya, about half-way between the capita
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...s the standard. Other minority languages are also available in their local communities.
...hool students created by the government of Mexico in 1968 and available in rural areas of the country as well as Central America, South America, Canada and
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...nd husbandry education could also have sanitation and economic benefits in rural areas. For more information see [[Animal Health]].
..., rugged and connected device such as the XO laptop goes on to benefit the communities (kids and their families) in more ways than just one. One of these aspects
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...on poor homes with not as much electric stuff and first world homes and communities with a lot of stuff
...re looking for a talented Instructor Volunteer willing to travel to remote communities where OLPC is targeting insertion.
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