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== Welcome-Bienvenue to the starting page for OLPC activities in Haiti !==
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... and thanks for visiting the "OLPC" related Wiki-Pages, for the One Laptop Per Child '''Universal Primary Education project''' for Haiti. This website is a collaborative website in which you can create a login and then edit and add the pages. This tool is made available by the One Laptop Per Child not for profit. This is '''an "Open Community" project''', similar to the [[Wikipedia]], [[wikibooks]] and Open Source Community projects, like [[Linux]], [[OpenOffice]], etc. and it is working along [[Agenda 21]] and [[Millennium Development Goal]] nr.2: Bringing Universal Primary Education. To edit text on this page or add pages, log in and and "edit page / save page" button will appear.


* 2' video - [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-M77C2ejTw&NR=1 OLPC Intro part 1]
Haiti, the poorest country in the Caribbean, is getting XOs from the [[G1G1|Give One Get One]] program. Challenges for deployment in Haiti include:
* 2' video - [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMeX2D4AOjM&feature=related OLPC Intro part 2]
* Initial deployments will use English and French, while localization into Kreyòl [https://dev.laptop.org/translate/ht continues].
* 7' video: [http://on.aol.com/video/the-success-of-the-one-laptop-per-child-organization-297293043 Impact on teachers, parents, kids, society.]
* Extreme poverty raises safety concerns for children with XOs.
* Recent food riots threaten stability and safety.
== News and Rumors ==
== Deployments and Trials ==
Several articles from the unofficial [http://www.olpcnews.com/countries/haiti/ OLPC News site section on Haiti] reference both trials.
=== Inter-American Development Bank ===
InterAmerican Development Bank (IDB) is planning a wide trial of 13,200 laptops. IDB is contributing $3,000,000, OLPC is contributing $2,000,000 (presumably in laptops from G1G1), and SES Global is donating bandwidth.
* [http://www.iadb.org/projects/Project.cfm?project=HA-T1093&Language=English IDB Project Page (Project HA-T1093)]
* [http://www.iadb.org/NEWS/articledetail.cfm?Language=En&parid=2&artType=PR&artid=4413 February 14, 2008 Press Release from IDB]


[[File:Haiti24 1.jpg|left|325px]]


The aim of this educational project, is on one hand to bring Universal Primary Education by 2015 as - anno year 2000 initiated - '''United Nations [[Millennium Development Goal]] nr.2'''. On the other hand, OLPC's mission is to manage the open hard and software project, to bring forward the best possible laptop combination for education: the [[XO-XServer combination]]. For this and above approach, - and also a lot of lobbying by the right persons on the right places and time - '''the United Nations is a Partner in this Open Community project'''! It is the largest educational project undertaken by Humanity ever, and deemed by many as one of the most inspiring projects out there. 2008, saw the first countries with a 100% roll out to all of their kids aged 5 till 15: Peru, Uruguay. Several [[Island States]] have a 100% deployment too; [[Rwanda]], [[Australia]], [[Cameroon]] are following at fast pace too. Every XO can load over 100 ebooks on its memory and has a choice of over 86.000 [[eBooks]] available, as well as many (educational) games, all education disciplines covered, etc. etc.. things are moving fast indeed.
=== Waveplace in Port-Au-Prince ===
* February 20, 2008: [[Waveplace]] starts a trial in Port-Au-Prince.
* See the [http://waveplace.com/locations/haiti/ movies].
* Keyboards in current trial came from G1G1 recipients and use US keyboards. Other keyboards will be used as the pilot expands.


[[File:Haiti-transportation-4g.jpg|right|325px]]
== Language Issues ==


Haiti is a very multi-cultural society with a very diverse diaspora. We hope that this diaspora will work their way to these pages and that society in Haiti will benefit from these citizens with one leg in Haiti and another still in their countries of origin to develop leadership for OLPC, [[Agenda 21]], the [[MDG's]] and accelerate bringing the level that our planet can be a nice place for all humans to new and inspiring heights for generations to come.
All Haitian children speak Haitian Creole, also called Kreyòl. About 90% of Haitians can only speak Kreyòl, with French being the common second language among the remaining 10%. Only about half of Haitians are literate (52.9%)[https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ha.html] and under a third (30%) reach the sixth grade. Complicating matters, there are three separate dialects of Kreyòl spoken in the northern, center, and southern areas. [http://www.nvtc.gov/lotw/months/january2005/haitiancreole.html]


The vast majority of XOs in Haiti originate from a [http://www6.iadb.org/en/projects/project-description-title,1303.html?id=ha-t1093#.UkdM_mQWlvU 2008 pilot program] co-financed by the [[G1G1|Give One Get One]] program and the Inter-American Development Bank.<ref>{{cite web|title=JawadHaiti Earthquake 2010 (Part One)|url=http://saigonolpc.wordpress.com/tag/earthquake/}}</ref> Since the the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Haiti_earthquake 2010 Haiti Earthquake], dozens of smaller pilots and grassroots efforts have continued the implementation of XOs in Haiti. The [http://olpcMAP.net OLPC map] currently lists over 30 deployments in six of the ten geographical [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Departments_of_Haiti departments of Haiti]. Major challenges in the deployment of XOs in Haiti include lack of widely available internet and electricity, school damage due to earthquakes, and localization of software and course material to [[Haitian Creole]].
Fluency and literacy in French is considered a mark of education and social class and provides greater access to higher education and employment. This is a continuing controversy, according to the [http://www.cal.org/co/haiti/hlang.html Cultural Orientation Resource Center]. Even with the education reforms of 1978, controversy over use of Creole in schools continues, and some Haitian emigrants rally against bilingual education in their new schools.


Please feel free to create sub-categories or list or start collaborating, teaming up and expanding our and your projects, existing and new ones in sub-categories and chapters.
Since 1978, Haitian Creole has had an official spelling and the national education reform has mandated the use of Haitian Creole in elementary grades. Many Haitian families trust tradition and continue to want French books, although educators know that in order to read a child must understand the language. There are many texts and textbooks written in Haitian Creole, but most bookstores in Haiti carry only French books. Since the 6th grade national test requires a Creole text, all schools teach reading and writing of Creole, even when French dominates instruction time. In the majority of schools, even though the books are in French, the teachers themselves are not fluent in French. Since 80% of schools in Haiti are own and run by private individuals and entities, enforcing national reform efforts is quasi impossible. (sources needed)


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= Deployments and Trials =
Additional names for Haitian Creole include Haitian Creole French or just Creole in English; Kreyòl or Ayisyen in Kreyòl; and Créole Haïtien in French. A creole is usually the descendant of a bilingual or multilingual pidgin, which is usually a mixture of words from the source languages with minimal, irregular grammar. Creoles consistently develop regular and very similar grammars in the second or third generation of speakers removed from the influence of source language speakers.


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According to sources cited at [http://www.ethnologue.org/show_language.asp?code=hat Ethnologue], Kreyol Aiysyen (sic) shows influences from Wolof, Fon, and Éwé. In 1961 it was granted legal and educational status in Haiti. It has a growing literature, including poetry, but lower social status than Standard French.
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! Sponsor
! Dates
! Location
! Laptops
! Description
|-
| Inter-American Development Bank
| 2008-2012?
| Jacmel, Kenscoff, Thomazeau, Lascahobas
| 13,700
| Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) planned a wide trial of 13,200 kids' laptops and 500 teachers' laptops. IDB announced it was contributing $3,000,000; OLPC was to contribute $2,000,000 (10,000 laptops from Give1Get1 + $120,000 in Coordination and Technical Assistance), and SES Global was to donate bandwidth.
* [http://idbdocs.iadb.org/wsdocs/getdocument.aspx?docnum=1364380 Plan of Operations (not visible in all browsers)]
* [http://www.iadb.org/projects/Project.cfm?project=HA-T1093&Language=English IDB Project Page (Project HA-T1093)]
* [http://www.iadb.org/NEWS/articledetail.cfm?Language=En&parid=2&artType=PR&artid=4413 February 14, 2008 Press Release from IDB]
|-
| [[Waveplace]]
| February 20, 2008
| Port-au-Prince
| 700
|
See [http://waveplace.com/locations/haiti/ videos] and [http://waveplace.com/news/blog/archive/cat_location_haiti.jsp field notes]. Laptops used used US keyboards from G1G1 program.
|-
| [[Waveplace]]
| June 2009
| Petite Rivière Des Nippes
| 23
|
|-
| [[Waveplace]]
| Spring 2010
| Île de la Gonâve, Archaie, Léogâne, Petite-Rivière-de-Nippes
| 170
|
24 schools
|-
|
|
| Port-au-Prince
|
| At College Mixte de l'Experience, young school north of Port-au-Prince's airport experimenting with XOs.
|-
| [http://hacus.org Haitian-American Caucus]
| Sept 2011
| Croix-des-Bouquets
| 60
| At the [https://www.google.com/search?q=site:haitidreams.wordpress.com+intitle%3A%22ecole+shalom%22 Ecole Shalom].
|-
| Child in Hand
| March 2013
| Port-au-Prince, Grand-Goâve
| 60
| Child in Hand sponsored deployments at [http://mohintl.org Mission of Hope Intl.] in Grand-Goave <sup>[http://olpcMAP.net?id=1196002 (map)]</sup> and the ORAEDH orphanage in PAP <sup>[http://olpcMAP.net?id=1200002 (map)]</sup>. Documented @ http://haitidreams.org
|-
| Project Rive
| August 2013
| Anse-à-Pitres (Ansapit), SE Haiti on the Dominican Republic border.
| 10
| http://projectrive.wordpress.com
|-
| [http://unleashkids.org Unleash Kids!]
| 2013 onwards
| About 10 Haiti schools & orphanages, many in and near Port-au-Prince.
| (existing laptops)
| Unleash Kids sends volunteers to Haiti to build resilient electrical/solar/server/content/learning systems for XOs and other computers. December 2014 [https://medium.com/@mapmeld/lascahobas-67b3e86ef05e summary] and [http://vimeo.com/111462774 video].
|}


= Related Pages =
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_farmer Dr. Paul Farmer] of [http://www.pih.org/ Partners in Health] (Zanmi LaSanté), in addition to organizing health care for a million of the poorest Haitians, has written extensively about the history and development needs of Haiti, and was the subject of a book by Tracy Kidder, ''Mountains Beyond Mountains''.
*Education in Haiti: [[OLPC Haiti/Background]]
*Donating used laptops to Haiti: [[OLPC_for_Haiti]]
*[[Haitian Creole]]
*[[Haitian Creole Resources]]
*[[Haitian Creole Translation for Education]]
*[[HaitiOS]] : Fun learning activities & projects for OLPC laptops in Haiti and beyond!


= Resources =
Haitian Creole is a very dynamic language which is constantly creating new words to adapt to the conjectures of the moments. The Haitian people are known for their extensive oral traditions and oral literature. Knowledge is most often transmitted orally, therefore individual's memories are most adapted to oral learning. For example, while many Americans no longer memorize any phone numbers, Haitians who use phone keep friends and family phone lists in their brain. This is just one example of how people practice memorizing information. Haitian spend a lot of time telling stories, discussing issues, and discussing life. People in Haiti use extensive repertoire of proverbs as cognitive tools to summarize the reasons for actions and events.
* OLPC Haiti News: http://www.olpcnews.com/countries/haiti/
* Video from Haitian government: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xaaayr_le-projet-xo-olpc-haiti_tech
* [[Media:Bastien Guerry OLPC1CC 21102008-1-.pdf| Feedback from the Haitian XO Deployment]], a presentation from Bastien Guerry & Wanda Eugene, members of the OLPC Learning Team who spent a summer in Haiti.


The Haitian community is a global community. Because of political persecution and economic hardship, Haitian people have emigrated and settled in the United States, Canada, and several Caribbean islands and nations. They constitute a large portion of the workforce in the Dominican Republic, Turks and Caicos, the Bahamas. There are also many Haitians in France, the French West Indies, and French Guayana. Most Diaspora Haitian keep in touch with relatives in Haiti and provide financial support to some of their relatives. Remittances are the most significant contributor of foreign currency to the Haitian economy, and amount to more than a billion dollars a year. In order to keep communication around the world Haitians use cassette recordings and cellular telephone. The need for cheap communication has brought some internet innovations such as internet phones very quickly to Haiti. Although most Haitians do not own PC's, there are Cybercafés in many towns, where people go to write emails to relatives, surf the internet, and make phone calls. Free internet access is rare but is available in many of the 55 libraries funded by FOKAL, the Haiti branch of the Soros foundation

=== Haitian Creole Source Material Links ===
*Haitian creole encyclopedia Wikipedia : http://ht.wikipedia.org/
*Haitian creole library Wikisource : http://ht.wikisource.org/
*Haitian creole web University Wikiversity : http://beta.wikiversity.org/wiki/Paj_Prensipal
*Discussion Group and projects on haitian creole : http://groups.google.fr/group/haitiancreole?hl=fr
[[Category:Countries|Haiti]]
[[Category:Countries|Haiti]]
[[Category:haiti]]
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Welcome-Bienvenue to the starting page for OLPC activities in Haiti !

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Haiti

 Country Information
 ISO Country Code HT
 Wikipedia Article Wikipedia Link
 Government Support Sponsored Trials
 Deployment Demonstration (under 50 machines)
 Languages
 Keyboard Layout US and Kreyòl/French Layouts
 Written Kreyòl/Haitian Creole(ht)
 Spoken Kreyòl/Haitian Creole(ht)
 Secondary Written French (fr)
 Secondary Spoken French (fr)


... and thanks for visiting the "OLPC" related Wiki-Pages, for the One Laptop Per Child Universal Primary Education project for Haiti. This website is a collaborative website in which you can create a login and then edit and add the pages. This tool is made available by the One Laptop Per Child not for profit. This is an "Open Community" project, similar to the Wikipedia, wikibooks and Open Source Community projects, like Linux, OpenOffice, etc. and it is working along Agenda 21 and Millennium Development Goal nr.2: Bringing Universal Primary Education. To edit text on this page or add pages, log in and and "edit page / save page" button will appear.

Haiti24 1.jpg

The aim of this educational project, is on one hand to bring Universal Primary Education by 2015 as - anno year 2000 initiated - United Nations Millennium Development Goal nr.2. On the other hand, OLPC's mission is to manage the open hard and software project, to bring forward the best possible laptop combination for education: the XO-XServer combination. For this and above approach, - and also a lot of lobbying by the right persons on the right places and time - the United Nations is a Partner in this Open Community project! It is the largest educational project undertaken by Humanity ever, and deemed by many as one of the most inspiring projects out there. 2008, saw the first countries with a 100% roll out to all of their kids aged 5 till 15: Peru, Uruguay. Several Island States have a 100% deployment too; Rwanda, Australia, Cameroon are following at fast pace too. Every XO can load over 100 ebooks on its memory and has a choice of over 86.000 eBooks available, as well as many (educational) games, all education disciplines covered, etc. etc.. things are moving fast indeed.

Haiti-transportation-4g.jpg

Haiti is a very multi-cultural society with a very diverse diaspora. We hope that this diaspora will work their way to these pages and that society in Haiti will benefit from these citizens with one leg in Haiti and another still in their countries of origin to develop leadership for OLPC, Agenda 21, the MDG's and accelerate bringing the level that our planet can be a nice place for all humans to new and inspiring heights for generations to come.

The vast majority of XOs in Haiti originate from a 2008 pilot program co-financed by the Give One Get One program and the Inter-American Development Bank.<ref>"JawadHaiti Earthquake 2010 (Part One)". Archived from the original. Template:Citation error. http://saigonolpc.wordpress.com/tag/earthquake/. </ref> Since the the 2010 Haiti Earthquake, dozens of smaller pilots and grassroots efforts have continued the implementation of XOs in Haiti. The OLPC map currently lists over 30 deployments in six of the ten geographical departments of Haiti. Major challenges in the deployment of XOs in Haiti include lack of widely available internet and electricity, school damage due to earthquakes, and localization of software and course material to Haitian Creole.

Please feel free to create sub-categories or list or start collaborating, teaming up and expanding our and your projects, existing and new ones in sub-categories and chapters.


Primary Language ,|x|Language spoken::x}}
Number of Laptops Number of manufactured laptops::13700+
Keyboard Layout [[Keyboard::OLPC_French_(ca)(ht)_Keyboard & English/Intl Keyboards]]
Build {{#arraymap:7.1.2 (656), 8.1.0 (703), HaitiOS based on 12.1.0|,|x|Software release::x}}
Date(s) Arrived in Country ,|x|Has received laptops on date::x}}
School Server ,|x|School server status::x}}
Deployment Status [[Deployment status::Target of 13.7K XOs, release 8.1.0 or later.

Actual amount deployed unknown.]]


Deployments and Trials

Sponsor Dates Location Laptops Description
Inter-American Development Bank 2008-2012? Jacmel, Kenscoff, Thomazeau, Lascahobas 13,700 Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) planned a wide trial of 13,200 kids' laptops and 500 teachers' laptops. IDB announced it was contributing $3,000,000; OLPC was to contribute $2,000,000 (10,000 laptops from Give1Get1 + $120,000 in Coordination and Technical Assistance), and SES Global was to donate bandwidth.
Waveplace February 20, 2008 Port-au-Prince 700

See videos and field notes. Laptops used used US keyboards from G1G1 program.

Waveplace June 2009 Petite Rivière Des Nippes 23
Waveplace Spring 2010 Île de la Gonâve, Archaie, Léogâne, Petite-Rivière-de-Nippes 170

24 schools

Port-au-Prince At College Mixte de l'Experience, young school north of Port-au-Prince's airport experimenting with XOs.
Haitian-American Caucus Sept 2011 Croix-des-Bouquets 60 At the Ecole Shalom.
Child in Hand March 2013 Port-au-Prince, Grand-Goâve 60 Child in Hand sponsored deployments at Mission of Hope Intl. in Grand-Goave (map) and the ORAEDH orphanage in PAP (map). Documented @ http://haitidreams.org
Project Rive August 2013 Anse-à-Pitres (Ansapit), SE Haiti on the Dominican Republic border. 10 http://projectrive.wordpress.com
Unleash Kids! 2013 onwards About 10 Haiti schools & orphanages, many in and near Port-au-Prince. (existing laptops) Unleash Kids sends volunteers to Haiti to build resilient electrical/solar/server/content/learning systems for XOs and other computers. December 2014 summary and video.

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