Nepal:Pilot Project Plan

Pilot Details

Nepal's Department of Education is planning to pilot OLPC at a test school in April of 2008. Nepal's Minister of Education, Pradip Nepal, strongly support the OLPC program. Currently, the pilot is planned at a Kathmandu-area school. The Danish IT Society has generously donated roughly 200 XO laptops for the pilot.

50 laptops should arrive in Mid-March and the remainder will arrive early April. The pilot will take place at a single school in the outskirts of Kathmandu. Laptops will be piloted in grades 2 and 6 (ages 6 and 11).

OLE Nepal is coordinating many aspects of pilot including teacher training, learning activity development, networking, and hardware deployment.

Team Members

From the Department of Education:

• Baburam Poudel, oversees pilot implementation
• Khaga Raj Poudel, assists Baburam
• Kamal Kafle, computer engineer
• Arjun Aryal, computer engineer

From OLE Nepal

• Dr. Saurav Dev Bhatta, Teacher training and curriculum development for the pilot
• Bryan Berry, lead systems engineer
• Sulochan Acharya, systems engineer

Other groups involved:

• FOSS Nepal is helping with localization - Subir Pradhanang and Basanta Shrestha particularly
• Nepal Wireless will help connect the school to the Internet using Wifi Point-to-Point links
• OLPC Nepal Localization and activity development

Personnel Needs: Need to designate someone to test and prepare the power solutions. Ram Krishna Singh would be ideal but he is very busy developing activities for the pilot.

Timeline

Feb 5th - Submit use cases and Requirements

Testing Plans

• Hardware
• Activities
• Networking
• Power