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==THE MILLENNIUM GIFT ETHIOPIA==
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===Ethiopia የሺህ ዓመት ስጦታ ኢትዮጵያ===
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#Poorest country in the world
#Lowest computer penetration in the world
#Lowest Internet and mobile penetration in the world
#Uses unique alphabet
#Uses unique calendar
*which needs some amount of development investment by software companies. The likely hood of that happening is slim due to problem no1 above. No one would invest on a market that has no money.
Even if computers trickle in to Ethiopia some how (which is not happening) they are of no use for an ordinary Ethiopian child who do not understand much English. The software companies will not be rushing to build computers for Ethiopian children since there will not be money in it.
The present system is condemns every Ethiopian child to computer darkness, for forseeable future.


===light in the tunnel===
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But we are in a very unique time, and opportunity has presented itself to change all this. For those who do not know, at the moment the calender year in Ethiopia is 1998. The Ethiopian millennium comes on September 11th 2008. (Don’t mind the date. You cannot imagine how painful for Ethiopians that dreadful day was.) That means the Ethiopian Millennium is going to be in about one and half year from now. And there are about 1.5 million Ethiopians living abroad. Most of those Ethiopians are educated and could help in many ways. Out of those Ethiopians with the most conservative estimate about 100 000 will be celebrating the Ethiopian millennium in Ethiopia.

===What The Millennium Gift Project does?===
The millennium gift project for the next one and half year prepares a gift of one laptop computer by one travelling Ethiopian for one Ethiopian child to be presented for the millennium celebration.

This project organizes a massive localization and translation project with the participation of all capable Ethiopians, free and open source software developers, institutions such as universities and colleges. Helping with organizing, coding, translating, identifying recipients and donors and contributing money.

===The software’s to be localized and translated to at least one Ethiopian language are===
*[https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/dapper/+lang/am Ubuntu Linux Dapper drake] (because of the [https://launchpad.net/ launchpad at Ubuntu] facility *Edubuntu
*[http://am.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%8B%8B%E1%8A%93%E1%8B%8D_%E1%8C%88%E1%8C%BD Amharic wikipedia]
*[http://am.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E1%8B%8B%E1%8A%93_%E1%8C%88%E1%8C%BD Amharic Wiktionary]

===Hardware===
*[http://www.laptop.org/ One laptop per child computer]
*Any laptop computer
*Any capable desktop computer
*Servers for schools
*Communication and Networking Equipment

===Recipients===
*Schools
*Classes
*Students

[[User:Teferra|Teferra]] 05:12, 27 May 2006 (EDT)

===External link===

Here is a link to a webspace about Ethiopian computing.

http://www.geez.org/

===Ethiopic page in this wiki===

* [[Ethiopic]]

===OLPC Ethiopia page in this wiki===

* [[OLPC Ethiopia]]

''The addition of the OLPC Ethiopia page has not been done by the management. It is simply another member of the community adding the page so that you have somewhere to place more information in the hope that it helps your campaign.''

===Which languages or languages are to be used?===

Which languages or languages are to be used?

Do they all use the Ethiopic script?

Revision as of 15:36, 27 May 2006

THE MILLENNIUM GIFT ETHIOPIA

Ethiopia የሺህ ዓመት ስጦታ ኢትዮጵያ

  1. Poorest country in the world
  2. Lowest computer penetration in the world
  3. Lowest Internet and mobile penetration in the world
  4. Uses unique alphabet
  5. Uses unique calendar
  • which needs some amount of development investment by software companies. The likely hood of that happening is slim due to problem no1 above. No one would invest on a market that has no money.

Even if computers trickle in to Ethiopia some how (which is not happening) they are of no use for an ordinary Ethiopian child who do not understand much English. The software companies will not be rushing to build computers for Ethiopian children since there will not be money in it. The present system is condemns every Ethiopian child to computer darkness, for forseeable future.

light in the tunnel

But we are in a very unique time, and opportunity has presented itself to change all this. For those who do not know, at the moment the calender year in Ethiopia is 1998. The Ethiopian millennium comes on September 11th 2008. (Don’t mind the date. You cannot imagine how painful for Ethiopians that dreadful day was.) That means the Ethiopian Millennium is going to be in about one and half year from now. And there are about 1.5 million Ethiopians living abroad. Most of those Ethiopians are educated and could help in many ways. Out of those Ethiopians with the most conservative estimate about 100 000 will be celebrating the Ethiopian millennium in Ethiopia.

What The Millennium Gift Project does?

The millennium gift project for the next one and half year prepares a gift of one laptop computer by one travelling Ethiopian for one Ethiopian child to be presented for the millennium celebration.

This project organizes a massive localization and translation project with the participation of all capable Ethiopians, free and open source software developers, institutions such as universities and colleges. Helping with organizing, coding, translating, identifying recipients and donors and contributing money.

The software’s to be localized and translated to at least one Ethiopian language are

Hardware

Recipients

  • Schools
  • Classes
  • Students

Teferra 05:12, 27 May 2006 (EDT)

External link

Here is a link to a webspace about Ethiopian computing.

http://www.geez.org/

Ethiopic page in this wiki

OLPC Ethiopia page in this wiki

The addition of the OLPC Ethiopia page has not been done by the management. It is simply another member of the community adding the page so that you have somewhere to place more information in the hope that it helps your campaign.

Which languages or languages are to be used?

Which languages or languages are to be used?

Do they all use the Ethiopic script?

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