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* [[User:Leeming|David Leeming]]
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* [[User:Ithomson|Ian Thomson]]
* [[User:Ithomson|Ian Thomson]]
* [[User:hutak|Michael Hutak]], Director, OLPC Oceania, +61 412 001 052



= Content and Localisation =
= Content and Localisation =

Revision as of 14:27, 16 November 2008


Oceania Community - News - Content - Evaluation - Languages - Countries
Cook Islands -French Polynesia - Kiribati - Nauru - New Caledonia - Niue - Palau - Papua New Guinea - Samoa- Solomon Islands - Tonga - Tokelau - Tuvalu - Vanuatu



Trials in PNG

Deployments in PNG will commence in June 2008 at the following sites:

  • Gaire, Central Province
  • Dreikikir, East Sepik Province
  • Buka, Bougainville Province
  • St Peters, a large primary school in Port Moresby


Click any picture to enlarge:

Contacts

  • Dr Joseph Pagelio, Secretary, Department of Education, PO Box 446, Waigani NCD Phone: 301 3447 Fax: 323 1031
  • Brian Gaius Monie, Senior Policy Development Officer, Dept of Education (email: brian_monie AT educationpng.gov.pg or bgm0077 AT gmail.com)
  • David Leeming
  • Ian Thomson
  • Michael Hutak, Director, OLPC Oceania, +61 412 001 052

Content and Localisation

Localization projects have been opened on the OLPC Pootle server for Tok Pisin language (PNG Pidgin)

News

One laptop per child concept accepted by PNG

The Prime Minister of Papua Niugini has accepted the One Laptop per Child project for the children of his children. This was announced on Radio Pacific News on Tuesday morning and according to his statement, the OLPC project will be rolled out over several years at a cost of several million dollars. He also noted that Niue is already taking part in the OLPC (one laptop per child) project for all 500 of their school children.

Youtube Video

Youtube of Dreikikir deployment

Gaire

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Gaire is located about 45 minutes drive from Port Moresby. It is the site of a rural community VSAT access point, set up under the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC)'s Pacific Rural Internet Connectivity System (Pacific RICS) project.

Breaking news, June 13th 2008: pictures of Gaire Primary school, 53 laptops, both streams of the Grade 3 saturated (Grade 3 is the first grade in the PNG primary education system). Gaire Primary School is located at 9.6698S, 147.4086E (WGS84), sea level.

None of the children have any experience of computers before. Of the teachers, only the Principal and one or two others are computer literate.

See latest photos!


Dreikikir

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Dreikikir Admin Primary School is located in East Sepik Province, near Wewak. This school is participating in the EU-funded Improvement of Rural Primary Education Facilities (IRPEF) project, based in Madang. The IRPEF is collaborating with the Department of Education and OLPC Oceania to implement the trial.

Dreikikir is located at 3.57516S, 142.76946E at altitude 380m.

Report for the Dreikikir trial deployment

This trial was started between 16th - 20th June 2008.

View the report by clicking here

Web resources for Dreikikir

Official website of the Ambunti-Dreikikir Electorate, Hon. Tony Aimo MP: [1]

Some pictures of the Drekikir region can be seen here: [2]

Other Resources for Dreikikir

Download Dreikikir data Spreadsheet of teachers and students names and positions with serial numbers of laptops. (ods format for Open Office)

Two videos were made of the deployment (300MB each). Contact Ian or David.

Useful links for PNG


Photo Gallery for PNG trials

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