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:''see also the [[Ethiopian Millenium Gift Project]]'' |
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= Project = |
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== Open source communities == |
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The Ethio-German Engineering Capacity Building Project of Ethiopia ([http://www.ecbp.biz ecbp]) is in charge of distributing 5000 XO laptops to Ethiopian schools. These laptops were donated to the country as a result of the 2006 Give One Get One promotion, and follows on from successful trials of 60 laptops in classes in Addis Ababa. |
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=== EFOSSNet === |
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10-20 active members? To clarify. Working with gtz, perhaps on an upcoming school trial |
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= EduVision = |
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=== Working languages === |
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Also see below; a very few people on small scales are working on non-amharic working languages. |
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EduVision are partnered with the project. They produce an interactive textbook activity, known as Akili (formerly Melepo). Akili is written in C++ and uses Qt, WebKit and libqsugar. The textbooks are represented in a custom XML format. It is private, proprietary software. |
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=== GTZ Ethiopia === |
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Most of the Ethiopian curriculum textbooks are included on the laptops in the form of Akili files. |
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Working actively in Addis and elsewhere. See Thomas Rolf (thomas.rolf(at)gtz.de) |
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Eduvision has published [[http://www.eduvision.ch/en/meta/documents/ethiopiareport_080227a-mh.pdf a report] about the impact of Melepo on the 2nd set of trials in Addis Ababa. |
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ecbp, a joined program of the MoCB (ministry of capacity building) and GTZ, works with 2 schools (30 notebooks each) in Addis to get first experience. |
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= Status = |
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: ''trained roughly 80 university teachers in eLearning and 150 students in open source and started an open source newsletter.'' (from a while back) |
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:: Todo: add OLPC materials to these workshops and emphasize local creation for young audiences |
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The 5000 laptops are being delivered to schools during September/October 2008. |
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== Consulting / for profit == |
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= Localization = |
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[http://www.eduvision.ch/en/index.php Eduvision] |
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== Translations == |
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Eduvision has produced the , |
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[http://www.eduvision.ch/en/meta/documents/ethiopiareport_080227a-mh.pdf first ever report published] on an OLPC deployment. [[User:Yamaplos|Yamaplos]] 13:53, 9 May 2008 (EDT) |
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Translations to Amharic will happen when the team has time. Translations to Oromo are also planned, as Oromia is one of the regions that will recieve laptops. |
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== Language/s == |
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Which language or languages are to be used? There are about 81 languages presently spoken in Ethiopia, but we are not going to target all of them. Though there are many factors that are going to decide which languages are going to be available for the Ethiopian millennium, the number of volunteers committing to the project will be the deciding factor. Everyone should have the chance to work on his/her own language. These are the 10 languages with the most speakers: |
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#[[Amharic]] |
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#[[Afan Oromo]] |
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#Tigrigna |
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#Somali |
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#Guragie |
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#Sidama |
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#Welayta (and related languages) |
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#Afar |
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#Hadiyya (and related languages) |
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#Kafa (and related languages). |
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A realistic goal for the millennium would be a complete [[Amharic]] version and partially complete Afan Oromo, and Tigrawi versions. |
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Do they all use the Ethiopic script? Except Afan Oromo, which has officially been using the [[Latin]] script since 1991, all languages use the Ethiopic script, but my guess is there will be people who would like to contribute to an Afan Oromo Ethiopic version too. We will see. If the tools are provided, the volunteers will show which direction the project will go.--Teferra 13:41, 27 May 2006 (EDT) |
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[[Category:Countries|Ethiopia]] |
[[Category:Countries|Ethiopia]] |
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Revision as of 20:49, 20 September 2008
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- see also the Ethiopian Millenium Gift Project
Project
The Ethio-German Engineering Capacity Building Project of Ethiopia (ecbp) is in charge of distributing 5000 XO laptops to Ethiopian schools. These laptops were donated to the country as a result of the 2006 Give One Get One promotion, and follows on from successful trials of 60 laptops in classes in Addis Ababa.
EduVision
EduVision are partnered with the project. They produce an interactive textbook activity, known as Akili (formerly Melepo). Akili is written in C++ and uses Qt, WebKit and libqsugar. The textbooks are represented in a custom XML format. It is private, proprietary software.
Most of the Ethiopian curriculum textbooks are included on the laptops in the form of Akili files.
Eduvision has published [a report about the impact of Melepo on the 2nd set of trials in Addis Ababa.
Status
The 5000 laptops are being delivered to schools during September/October 2008.
Localization
Translations
Translations to Amharic will happen when the team has time. Translations to Oromo are also planned, as Oromia is one of the regions that will recieve laptops.
| Primary Language | ,|x|Language spoken::x}} |
| Number of Laptops | Number of manufactured laptops::5050 |
| Keyboard Layout | Keyboard::OLPC Amharic Keyboard |
| Build | ,|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:: |