User talk:GJavetski

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Good luck, and have fun. --Sj 13:01, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

Updating your work with more on OLPC projects in Afghanistan and region

Can you start adding details about OLPC work in the region?

OLPC Afghanistan
- Keyboards designed for this audience
- Our partners' work: Paiwastoon, AIMS, the MOE
OLPC Pakistan (small and older, but worth noting)

Other regional groups whose works should be covered:

The Aga Khan Foundation

Also, briefly:

--Sj talk 15:37, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

Disassembly

See: Disassembly for 1.0 details. The main difference for this 1.5 is the keyboard, which comes out with the two screws under the battery sliders on the base. 18.85.46.242

Parallelizing data

Lists of global orgs

for when you get back to Afghanistan for a second pass: add the following for each of our countries: what major projects are run/sponsored by

UNICEF
WFP
WHO
UNESCO
UNDP
Red Cross/Red Crescent
the Catholic Church
World Vision (they publish stories from war-torn regions and related project data) - on the Mideast and Afghanistan
Save the Children (they're helping run the UN Education Cluster)
USAID
SOS Children's Villages
World Bank (and the Inter-American Development Bank, in LatAm)

Relevant data

List available data where easy to find; list but leave blank elsewhere.

Basic education stats (from the UNICEF state of the world's children report)
Census stats relating to children (cf. Wikipedia's country template & World Factbook data)
Government expenses and budgets
International aid investments (focused on education; break out by country/org where available)

Recent Gallup data on connectivity

http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2010/07/internet-connectivity-and-economic-development/60639/

Nice timeline

Don't forget to summarize and final work you hope to have in place or things you want to learn from groups here, while working on whitepapers. I'm sure Z. or S. could tell you more about their work if you are interested. --Sj talk 18:48, 6 August 2010 (UTC)