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==basket case== |
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I changed "thought of as a basket case" to "thought of as an economic challenge". |
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I'm a student from Utah State University and I will be applying for the OLPCorps Africa grant for June - Aug 2009. I work as the Programs Associate for The UNGANA Foundation and my project XO Go extends Rwanda's deployment to rural orphans in Gisenyi. I would like to learn more about OLPC Rwanda's deployment specifics; namely XO content, deployment locations, local partners, etc. Can someone with OLPC Rwanda please contact me? Email works best: ashley@unganafoundation.org. I hope to post our project proposal on the OLPCorps Africa FAQ Wiki within the week. |
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I have no idea why someone would post offensive material about a nation you are trying to help.... |
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it reeks like sabotage to me. I suspect Intel is sabotaging the Wiki. |
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--[[User:Ashleylinford|Ashleylinford]] 07:18, 9 March 2009 (UTC) |
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I'm totally serious, the amount of mis-information being spread about this wonderful non-profit humanitarian project amazes me. Especially those guys at www.olpcnews.com They are obviously paid by Intel to promote Fear Uncertainty & doubt about the OLPC project. |
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: Hello Ashley, [[user:bjordan|Brian]] is a good person to contact about this; I've left him a note on his talk page. --[[User:Sj|Sj]] [[User talk:Sj|<font style="color:#f70; font-size:70%">talk</font>]] 22:51, 14 March 2009 (UTC) |
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They claim to be an "independent" look at the OLPC project. |
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== Current tech help in Rwanda? == |
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... but honestly, a professionally designed website, with huge bandwidth, tons of high-quality Tabloid-style articles bashing everything and anything remotely connected to OLPC. |
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I'm interested in Rwanda and might be able to offer some tech help through friends there. How can I get involved? [[User:Mariano|Mariano]] 06:15, 8 December 2009 (UTC) |
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Why is someone out there spending tons of his hard earned money & hours per day bashing a site he has no connection to?? |
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: I think that the OLPC Learning team is now based out of Rwanda. You might try reaching out to [[User:Julia]] via her talk page. [[User:Cjl|cjl]] 14:34, 8 December 2009 (UTC) |
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doesn't seem right to me... |
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:Rudeness and insensitivity does not equal sabotage. Honestly, the original was more factual. Equivalents might be "train wreak" and "lost cause". I suppose that "challenge" is on it's way to acquiring the same sort of rude and nasty connotation because it keeps getting used for places like Rwanda. Maybe next you'll switch to "differently affluent"? I offer "economic disaster" and "dysfunctional economy" as no-nonsense factual expressions of the situation. |
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== This project started in 2008, we're now 2012 ... how and why on earth did it stall and nobody's writing about any progress here or using these pages to coordinate things? == |
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:As for olpcnews... like any Tabloid, they do ANYTHING required to stir up interest. Say, does the site have advertisers? (I'm not going there to check) Ad revenue would explain a lot, no conspiracy required. |
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:"Never match wits with a half-wit." There is nothing to be gained by confronting those who are deliberately spreading misinformation about the project (regardless of what motivates them). Our best strategy is to put our efforts towards making one laptop per child successful. --[[User:Walter|Walter]] 06:41, 1 March 2007 (EST) |
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"According to the 2010 revison of the World Population Prospects the total population was 10 624 000 in 2010, compared to only 2 072 000 in 1950. The proportion of children below the age of 15 in 2010 was 42.6%, ..." as per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Rwanda#Population . |
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I start from the premises that the age frame for olpc is kids from 5 - 15. So that's about 1/3 of the 42.6% = 14,2% de 10 624 000 population totale = 1.508.608 étudiants qui ont besoin d'un XO. Le chiffre mentionné dans OLPC Rwanda et l'article http://www.newsofrwanda.com/featured1/24845/rwanda-saluted-for-developing-21st-century-learning-skills/ parlent de 2.5 million d'écoliers niveau primaire = 5-12 ans. |
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Wow, what a great compliment: "a professionally designed website, with huge bandwidth, tons of high-quality Tabloid-style articles." It always surprises me that y'all find my site is so insightful, influential, and to Walter's dismay, informative, that you cannot believe [http://www.olpcnews.com/countries/rwanda/ OLPC News] is the humble work of a loose association of writers and commenters. Now that's the very definition of [http://www.bellybuttonwindow.com/2006/america/blogging_big_leagues.html blogging success]. Wayan - [http://www.olpcnews.com OLPC News] |
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Ah Thx for updating. --[[User:SvenAERTS|SvenAERTS]] 11:06, 27 May 2013 (UTC) |
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==from a fan== |
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GO Rwanda! |
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== Bill Clinton foundation or Kagame ? == |
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President Kagame was militarily trained in the USA. The Clinton's are very fond of him. I understood it was the Clinton foundation sponsoring all the XO's, isn't it? 210.000 XO-XServers and 2.5 million kids in primary school. Still a way to go. Is there still tribal separation, where only kids in villages that voted for Kagame would receive the XO's or what's the picture? Thy --[[User:SvenAERTS|SvenAERTS]] 11:06, 27 May 2013 (UTC) |
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I'm a student from Utah State University and I will be applying for the OLPCorps Africa grant for June - Aug 2009. I work as the Programs Associate for The UNGANA Foundation and my project XO Go extends Rwanda's deployment to rural orphans in Gisenyi. I would like to learn more about OLPC Rwanda's deployment specifics; namely XO content, deployment locations, local partners, etc. Can someone with OLPC Rwanda please contact me? Email works best: ashley@unganafoundation.org. I hope to post our project proposal on the OLPCorps Africa FAQ Wiki within the week.
--Ashleylinford 07:18, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
- Hello Ashley, Brian is a good person to contact about this; I've left him a note on his talk page. --Sj talk 22:51, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
Current tech help in Rwanda?
I'm interested in Rwanda and might be able to offer some tech help through friends there. How can I get involved? Mariano 06:15, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
- I think that the OLPC Learning team is now based out of Rwanda. You might try reaching out to User:Julia via her talk page. cjl 14:34, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
This project started in 2008, we're now 2012 ... how and why on earth did it stall and nobody's writing about any progress here or using these pages to coordinate things?
thy--SvenAERTS 02:32, 27 February 2012 (UTC) "According to the 2010 revison of the World Population Prospects the total population was 10 624 000 in 2010, compared to only 2 072 000 in 1950. The proportion of children below the age of 15 in 2010 was 42.6%, ..." as per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Rwanda#Population .
I start from the premises that the age frame for olpc is kids from 5 - 15. So that's about 1/3 of the 42.6% = 14,2% de 10 624 000 population totale = 1.508.608 étudiants qui ont besoin d'un XO. Le chiffre mentionné dans OLPC Rwanda et l'article http://www.newsofrwanda.com/featured1/24845/rwanda-saluted-for-developing-21st-century-learning-skills/ parlent de 2.5 million d'écoliers niveau primaire = 5-12 ans.
Ah Thx for updating. --SvenAERTS 11:06, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
Bill Clinton foundation or Kagame ?
President Kagame was militarily trained in the USA. The Clinton's are very fond of him. I understood it was the Clinton foundation sponsoring all the XO's, isn't it? 210.000 XO-XServers and 2.5 million kids in primary school. Still a way to go. Is there still tribal separation, where only kids in villages that voted for Kagame would receive the XO's or what's the picture? Thy --SvenAERTS 11:06, 27 May 2013 (UTC)