Talk:OLPC Philippines

It's nice for you to start this page, Frederick. Meantime, note that there is an ongoing Media Fiesta at http://puppylinux.org/fiesta - those pages try to put together what we can now do for addressing the digital divide. Cheers! ~~ User:Raffy, Aug 15, 2006

Talk talk talk, but...

I wish somebody would start working on this page instead of just talking about it! --Chief Mike 05:49, 27 February 2007 (EST)

It's looking like a real possibility now vs chit chat we are going to submit a grant proposal to The World Bank's project Panibagong Paraan'08 for the Pilot project "Unang Liwanag" seed money

http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES/EASTASIAPACIFICEXT/PHILIPPINESEXTN/0,,menuPK:332988~pagePK:141159~piPK:141110~theSitePK:332982,00.html

--Chief Mike 03:01, 11 December 2007 (EST) :)

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Finally things are at the staring point.</ br> the photograph is slightly out of focus re; Some people(USA) don't like photos of their children posted on the Internet.

M'glade to help-out --Chief Mike 06:56, 20 May 2007 (EDT)

Should we make a photo galley on main page or not?

XO-1 arrives in Manila January 2007 Courtesy of hip2b2@Flckr.com

--Chief Mike 07:54, 20 May 2007 (EDT)

Having pics of the prototype in the hands of Filipino children would be great. Any content that can increase visibility in the Philippines is welcome. -- Sgc

language templates now available

See Category:User tl --Chief Mike 10:03, 12 September 2007 (EDT)

Also Translators#New in-wiki languages --Xavi 11:56, 12 September 2007 (EDT)

tl	Ang manggagamit na ito ay katutubong mananalita ng Tagalog.

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OLPC for Philippine NBN Project

JANUARY 16, 2008 From James in canada - I woul dlike some feedback on my thoughts re: OLPC and the NBN Project:

In 2007 the Philippine government's Department of Communications DOC was engaged in a nation wide project called the National Broadband Network (NBN). Work on the project was suspended due to some political issues. The President, Gloria Arroyo (GMA), has mandated that the Philippines will engage in a nation-wide ICT program to provide the access for government agencies to IP based services by deploying a national broadband network.

Wouldn't it be great if the proposed NBN program mandated that a rural education component must be included as part of the NBN deployment and that ICT access, as well as deployment of XO laptops was the deliverable for that component?

In other words, this proposed nation wide broadband ICT build would not only give government agencies in all parts of the Philippines access to IP based services, but would importantly require providing OLPC devices (XO laptops) to school districts in the provinces where education is so very important in order to break the level of rural poverty.

I would be interested in knowing if OLPC has a mechanism to initiate this sort of program? My interest, having worked on a large scale digital network build in the Philippines in 1998 (the TelicPhil NDTN project) would be to assist with the project planning and project management requirements on a voluntary basis.