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'''OLPCorps Vision''' |
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'''California State University (CSUSB)''' |
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There are certain definite economic, social and cultural obstacles against children basic schooling in developing countries. These are corruption, poverty, disease, socio-economic, political and cultural factors, and risk associated with hostile governance. While these obstacles generally constrain development of human resource, their impact on rural and poorer kids is particularly high. None of the obstacles are however irremovable though some may require more intensive remedial measures than others. A combination of projects as well as policies to change government and parental attitude towards child education, reduce direct and opportunity cost, and improve quality of education may normally be desirable. The package of measure to overcome the bottlenecks with in built flexibility to respond to local situations, particularly with regards to disadvantaged communities is the OLPCorps recurring network-learning program for kids. |
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XO KV (Kiddies vision) 6-12 is the proposed project program name for the OLPCorps Africa grassroots initiative in Nigeria that will give kids limitless access to knowledge as well as a new age of development in their educational system and community. The main goal of the program is providing training for children between the ages of six to twelve years old, especially kids from extremely low-income areas. XO KV6-12 program will focus on providing young kids access to digital technologies and information by introducing them to powerful ways to use them. This opportunity will help them to be in a better position to make a future difference in their communities and the world. It is expected that by providing such information to young minds, it will be have direct and positive effect on their academic and community development. CSUSB OLPCorps Team team is uniquely qualified for the OLPCorps project because of our team’s ties to the proposed deployment country. The OLPCorps CSUSB Nigeria Team is comprised of two Nigeria citizens that are graduate students in the Computer Science and Engineering Department of California State University San Bernardino. Our extensive memberships in IEEE (Founding members of IEEE CSUSB Chapter)-http://groups.google.com/group/csusb-ieee-student-chapter, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)-http://www.acm.org/, GFA (Greetings from America)-http://www.greetingsfromamerica.org/, EAC Abuja US embassy-http://nigeria.usembassy.gov/prog_08092007a.html, Cyber Defense CSUSB Team-http://insecuresystem.org/pages/csusb-network.php, CSE Club-http://cse.csusb.edu/cse.CLUB, and NYSC Charity group-http://www.nysc.gov.ng/ will be of great technical as well as professional value in the OLPCorps Africa. |
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For more information about our team feel free contact us at smugs2che@gmail.com or blog at myspace.com/keleonye |
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Latest revision as of 05:51, 17 March 2009
OLPCorps Vision
There are certain definite economic, social and cultural obstacles against children basic schooling in developing countries. These are corruption, poverty, disease, socio-economic, political and cultural factors, and risk associated with hostile governance. While these obstacles generally constrain development of human resource, their impact on rural and poorer kids is particularly high. None of the obstacles are however irremovable though some may require more intensive remedial measures than others. A combination of projects as well as policies to change government and parental attitude towards child education, reduce direct and opportunity cost, and improve quality of education may normally be desirable. The package of measure to overcome the bottlenecks with in built flexibility to respond to local situations, particularly with regards to disadvantaged communities is the OLPCorps recurring network-learning program for kids.
