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==Wiki Background info==
=== 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)

=== Lists of global orgs ===
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 [http://meero.worldvision.org/frontline-focus/childrenofwar.html stories] from war-torn regions and related [http://meero.worldvision.org/documents.php 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)

Revision as of 18:47, 6 August 2010

About Me

My name is Gillian Javetski and I am an intern at OLPC's Cambridge office this summer. I am a senior at Tufts University, where I am double majoring in international relations and community health. I took this past semester off to work at the United Nations Development Programme's HIV/AIDS unit in Geneva. At OLPC, I will be conducting research on UN and international partnerships.

Work at OLPC

  • Blog posts (both writing and editing)
    • Afghanistan blog posts, including one, two, three --> Go through and select photos for Afghanistan blog posts
    • Other blog posts, including XO 1.5HS, Indonesian laptop
  • UNICEF/Afghanistan wiki page and research, including foreign aid data
    • Correspond with Mike Dawson, met with Matt and Salim
    • Afghanistan budget research for Matt; spoke with contacts at a variety of think tanks and USAID
    • Research on incorporating an NGO in Afghanistan
    • Work on Afghanistan grant process, do research, create google docs, beginning to add information, met with Barbara for information
    • UNICEF/Afghanistan memo
  • WFP/Nepal wiki page: corresponded with Nepal team
  • Haiti Partners/Haiti wiki page: met with Adam to discuss Haiti
  • Working with/checking in on volunteers on IRC Chat
  • Events: Conference call on education with tinygames (6/17), meeting on Realness Conference (6/17), call with Reverend Franck Boah (6/18), RIT Hackfest (7/8), MIT Media Lab (7/12), meeting with Salim (7/16), OLPC Conference (7/17)
  • Twittering daily
    • Updating microblog wiki page
  • XO 1.5 HS teardown and photos

Timeline/To Do List

  • July 28-31st: wrote blog posts about Afghanistan and 1.5HS, put grant application and SF424 up, continue working on Nepal wiki page.
  • August 2-August 6: Look at Matt's research request about incorporating an office in Afghanistan, email Nepal group for feedback and incorporate feedback, go through OLE newsletters, Haiti wiki page
  • August 9-13: post tear down instructions, work with Paul on RTC problems, Rwanda wiki page, write additional 2 blog posts on 1.5HS, make wiki page on country statistics (number of primary school students, public private distinction, gender gap) from UNESCO, Ethiopia wiki page
  • August 16-24: home for vacation
  • August 24-September 4: working on and finalizing white papers
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