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==Project Goals==
==Project Goals==


Participation of the OLPC project in Afghanistan will revolutionize the
Afghanistan is a very famous for being a multicultural country. Participation of the OLPC
way in which children are taught, as well as promote cooperation between
project in Afghanistan will not only revolutionize the way children are taught,
but also scale up the eco-system of sharing between the diverse set of communities existing
the diverse set of communities existing in central Asia.
in the central Asian countries.


The mission of this Nonprofit Organization is to create an environment for OLPC,
The mission is to create a fit environment for OLPC, take necessary steps to ensure every child in Afghanistan receives an XO laptop and
develop the Local Activities for OLPC laptops that could revolutionize how Afghani children are educated.
take necessary steps to ensure every child in Afghanistan gets the laptop and
The goal of OLPC Afghanistan is to provide every child with new opportunities to explore, experiment, and express themselves in a collaborative way.
develop the Local Activities for OLPC laptops that could revolutionize how
Afghani children are educated.
The goal is to provide every child in Afghanistan with new opportunities to
explore, experiment, and express themselves in a collaborative way.


The Ministry of Education Afghanistan (MoE), and Ministry of Communication and
The Ministry of Education Afghanistan (MoE), and Ministry of Communication and

Revision as of 19:51, 21 December 2009

One Laptop Per Child Afghanistan

One Laptop Per Child Afghanistan

This is the new Official Wiki page for "One Laptop Per Child Afghanistan" project.

Project Goals

Participation of the OLPC project in Afghanistan will revolutionize the way in which children are taught, as well as promote cooperation between the diverse set of communities existing in central Asia.

The mission is to create a fit environment for OLPC, take necessary steps to ensure every child in Afghanistan receives an XO laptop and develop the Local Activities for OLPC laptops that could revolutionize how Afghani children are educated. The goal of OLPC Afghanistan is to provide every child with new opportunities to explore, experiment, and express themselves in a collaborative way.

The Ministry of Education Afghanistan (MoE), and Ministry of Communication and Information Technology Afghanistan (MoCIT), in a unique public-private partnership with USAID’s Afghanistan Small and Medium Enterprise Development (ASMED) and Telecom Development Company Afghanistan - Roshan, launched the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project in Afghanistan in September 13, 2008.

Contacts and Further Information

• Official OLPC Afghanistan website

• Official OLPC Afghanistan Dari Weblog

• Contact Salim Hayran, OLPC Afghanistan Project Coordinator

• Send inquiries to info@olpc.af

Deployments

Deployment Wiki Page

Read here Information on pilot project, first and second phase of deployment and list of schools selected for implementation.

Team Members Involved

OLPC Afghanistan Team

  1. Sohaib Obaidi Ebtihaj
  2. Usman Mansour Ansari
  3. Mohammad Hamed Quraishi

Read More about the OLPC Afghanistan team and volunteers [here]

Media Coverage

4/3/09 Huffington Post: “Afghanis Desperately want to Learn and aren't Afraid to Do So: Washington can't be Afraid to Help Them” by Matt Keller, Director of Europe, Middle East and Africa for One Laptop per Child.

3/5/09 CNN: “Laptops bring lessons, maybe even peace”

2/10/09 USAID: “One Laptop per Child Program to be Launched in Afghanistan”

1/31/09 USAID: “One Laptop Per Child program launched in Afghanistan”

9/9/08 Tech World: “How the OLPC can help beat Taliban in Afghanistan”

9/5/08 PC World: “OLPC Seeks ITU's Help to Promote Laptops”

12/12/07 CSR Wire (The Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire): “The Kite Runner Inspires Gift Through One Laptop”

Picture Blog

  • via Picassa [1]
  • via Flickr [2]

Technical structure and operations

The Structure of Technical Operations
Laptop Update & Maintenance Procedure
Example of Networking Site for Teachers

The first diagram shows the structure of Technical operations of OLPC Afghanistan. The Second one is the chart of Laptop Update and Maintenance procedure and the job of each team member. The third diagram is showing an example of networking sites available for teachers in schools.

Sections: The whole Technical operations can be divided into 5 sections.

  • Deployment teams section

This section's responsibility is deployment of OLPC laptops to schools with all related logistics and actions.

  • Technical trainers section

Technical trainers are responsible for education of teachers and at the beginning of the project also for education of Technical operations staff.

  • User service team section

User service teams provides support for teachers and schools what OLPC laptops concern – troubleshooting, documentation creation, development of new activities (programs). This team will closely cooperate with Ministry of Education on development of new content and activities for OLPC already deployed where MoE will provide the Curricular specifications and content and User service team developers will create the programming part.

  • Localization team section

Localization team is responsible for translating the current activities into Dari and Pashto. This activity will take place at the very beginning of OPLC project.

See also

External links



Primary Language ,|x|Language spoken::x}}
Number of Laptops Number of manufactured laptops::5000
Keyboard Layout Keyboard::OLPC Dari 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::Started with Paiwastoon. The first few hundred arrived in 2008, and the rest throughout 2009.


This category is only for pages that describe an OLPC deployment. Category:Deployment planning is for pages about the topic of deployments.

See the Deployments page for deployment summary information pulled from these pages.

Template:Deployment puts pages in this category. Deployment coordinators can use Has default form::Form:Deployment to edit these pages; look for an 'edit with form' tab on them. Afghanistan