OLPC Mali

Mali

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Country Information
ISO Country Code	DZ
Wikipedia Article	Wikipedia Link
Government Support	Invalid Support Param
Deployment	Invalid Deployment Param
Languages
Keyboard Layout	French Layout
Written	French (fr)
Spoken	French (fr)
Secondary Written	English (en)
Secondary Spoken	lingala, swahili, kikongo et tshiluba

Bienvenue-Welcome

... and thanks for visiting the pages for OLPC related matters in Mali. OLPC is the One Laptop Per Child Universal Primary Education project and largest educational project undertaken by Humanity ever. Supported by United Nations, OLPC is an "Open Commmunity" project, similar to the Wikipedia 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 - OLPC Intro part 1
• 2' video - OLPC Intro part 2

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. Things are moving very fast indeed: 2008 saw the first 3 countries with full coverage, i.e. with all kids age 5 to 12 equipped with these smallest schools in a box-laptops and Australia is now following at fast pace too, over 86.000 eBooks available, all education disciplines covered, etc. etc..

Beaucoup d'inhabitants cherchent fortune ailleurs. Therefore there is a very very large diaspora. We hope that this diaspora will work their way to these pages, set-up, link-up their projects with OLPC, coordinate projects and that they can inspire many in their host countries to come along. It is so difficult in these host countries to develop additional value and hence make money. In many regions in the home country however it is so easy as everything is to be developed.

Also the societies from the host countries will benefit from the Mali diaspora who has one leg in the host country and another still in their countries of origin. Maybe it will start by developing leadership for OLPC, but soon it will be accompanied by exporting technologies, know-how and experience from the host countries along Agenda 21, the MDG's and together you will be able to accelerate bringing the level of quality of life in Mali to a level that will inspire others, existing generations and generations to come.

Please feel free to create links, (sub-)categories or list or start collaborating, teaming up and expanding our and your projects, existing and new ones in one of these (sub-)categories.

Mali is one of the 18 partner countries of Belgian governmental cooperation were selected on the basis of their degree of poverty, aspects of good governance and Belgium’s potential for providing meaningful support. The precise criteria for selecting countries are set out in the law on international cooperation, which limits the maximum number of recipients to 18 partner countries. More: http://diplomatie.belgium.be/en/policy/development_cooperation/countries/partner_countries/

Mali is a Least Developing Country as per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Least_developed_country

Suggested Links and categories

1. Mali
2. OLPC Mali
3. Mali Looking Backward to what has been done
4. Brainstorming how to get the Mali Gvt interested in OLPC
5. What every government should ask itself when considering an ebook deployment
6. Stages and Budget
7. Mali Stages and Budget
8. Mali Budget for Phase II, Data Retrieval Phase
9. FAQ Mali
10. Who's Who OLPC-Mali
    1. OBJECTIF BROUSSE Ecoles OLPC
11. Mali Meetings
12. OLPC Africa
13. OLPC Afrique
14. Deployment Guide

A small summer program deployment, 30 XO laptops in the village of Ouéléssébougou, Mali is being followed in this series of blog posts on laptopmag.com.

• A different back-to-school laptop: OLPC's XOs head to Mali; Aug 19, 2008

• OLPC Mali: Village teachers learn to use the XO; Aug 26, 2008

• OLPC Mali: The kids get the XO laptops; Sept 14, 2008

• OLPC Mali: Kids Take Home the XO Laptops; Oct 6, 2008

Former LAPTOP employee Salimata Fandjalan Bangoura is the project manager for OLPC Mali.

Salimata Bangoura announced a final report in French and English on April 1, 2009.

Find new posts via OLPC Mali tag on laptopmag.com.

Next in line for deployment

Suggestions: The town of Tiby, one of the Millennium Villages.--SvenAERTS 02:07, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

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Pilot Status	[[Pilot status::This deployment has finished. Salimata Bangoura announced a final report in French and English on April 1, 2009.]]