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* September 2008 - Department of Education Expression Of Interest: [[media:30x6 _Expression of Interest_English.pdf|Document]]
* September 2008 - Department of Education Expression Of Interest: [[media:30x6 _Expression of Interest_English.pdf]]





Revision as of 12:55, 8 September 2008

2007 status: red
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Deployments

Kliptown

Thulani Madondo who leads Kliptown Youth Program is at United Nations. He is in US from the 18 May to 13 June 2008.He will be sharing with the world on how families can donate XO laptops to organizations. The Kliptown Youth Program joined the One here... One there team in Haenertsburg from 10-23 August 2008 for the deployment of 100 XO laptops. Visit the following links to read more about their experiences http://iuohot.blogspot.com/ and http://www.kliptownyouthprogram.org

Johannesburg

Paul Commons is coming to Pretoria (Hanaertsburg) in August 2008 with a team of volunteers to deploy 100 XOs through the Give Many program.

Events

Cape Town

  • Upcoming Events
  • Past Events
    • 08 May 2007 - Cape Linux Users Group - "Developing Activities For Sugar" More information: [1]
    • 19/20 April 2007 - OLPC-ZA will be running a stand and showing off the XO during the Digital Freedom Expo at the University of the Western Cape.

Initiatives

Government Initiatives


Independent Organisational Initiatives

Shuttleworth Foundation

OLPC - ZA

  • The Grassroots community Organization South Africa

Private Sector Initiatives

See also

http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-za/ http://www.indiana.edu/~iuohot/


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Number of Laptops Number of manufactured laptops::200
Keyboard Layout Keyboard::OLPC English Keyboard
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School Server ,|x|School server status::x}}
Deployment Status Deployment status::200 XOs