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The United States (U.S.) presents a special case to OLPC deployments.
* Most software is initially localized to the United States and so requires no additional localization.
* Most laptops deployed in the United States are from the G1G1 program and not from school or government programs.
* The U.S. spends significantly more than many countries on education and has been a lower priority for deployment.
* Each of the fifty United States, plus associated territories, has great discretion on which tools it uses for education.


= News and Rumors =
Entered the list of 'green' countries through the [[news]] announcement of 2007-04-28 (which can be found in the [http://laptop.media.mit.edu/laptopnews.nsf/2e76a5a80bc36cbf85256cd700545fa5/1d54da039aebe1ff852572cb005aefae?OpenDocument archive]) and states:
* 9 Jan 2008 The OLPC announced the foundation of a group, [[OLPC America]], to bring XO laptops to American students. Details are unavailable until a launch later in 2008.

* 28 April 2007 United States entered the list of 'green' countries, according to an [http://www.olpcnews.com/countries/usa/one_laptop_per_child_news.html article] of the unofficial [http://www.olpcnews.com/ OLPC News]. Also mentioned in by [[User:Walter Bender|Walter Bender]] in [http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/community-news/2007-April/000055.html an email post].


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= Deployments and Trials =
Maine and Georgia have similar programs using conventional laptops. As Governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney called for XOs in MA schools. This is not part of his presidential campaign.
== Give One Get One (G1G1) ==
The [[Give1Get1|Give One Get One]] Program allowed people in the United States and some other areas to purchase laptops from the OLPC Foundation at cost in return for donating a laptop for a deployment to be named later. About 80,000 units were purchased in the United States with a matching number earmarked for future deployments outside the country (cite?). Logistics marred the program's success causing delayed deliveries and far more support calls than anticipated.


== Government and Official Groups ==
On 2008-1-9 OLPC announced the formation of [[OLPC America]].
* [[OLPC America]] will be the official organization within the OLPC Foundation providing support to U.S. deployments.
* The OLPC Foundation is located in the United States.


== States and Territories ==
==US Virgin Islands==
=== US Virgin Islands - Waveplace ===
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Waveplace Foundation in the middle of a ten-week pilot on the island of Saint John.
* ''Note the the Virgin Islands is a United States 'territory' not a state. This leads it to have an alternate [[Country_name|ISO country code]], VI''

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* [[Waveplace]] conducted a ten-week pilot on the island of Saint John.
Should this prove successful, there's great interest to purchase
XOs for every elementary student in the US Virgin Islands.

More information (with photos & video) can be found on the [http://waveplace.com Waveplace] site.

==Private and Church Schools==

If your school has the ability to make purchasing decisions independently of state education programs, then you could buy a set of laptops through the [http://www.xogiving.org Give 1, Get 1] program. If course, this means that you will simultaneously be funding a school of equivalent size in a developing country as well.

==States==
Please add yours if there is an active effort there.


===California===
===California===
I don't know whether CA is talking to OLPC, but I have started talking to politicians here. Assemblyman Ira Ruskin has a bill to fund a pilot project to encourage use of Free Textbooks in CA junior colleges. --[[User:Mokurai|Mokurai]] 17:49, 6 July 2007 (EDT)
* July 6, 2007 rumor that assemblyman Ira Ruskin has a bill to fund a pilot project to encourage use of Free Textbooks in CA junior colleges.

I'm a computer consultant in the San Francisco Bay Area, CA USA... If I can make the time to, I am considering starting a project in Marin City- Sausalito, CA HUD housing and/or Richmond, CA and/or Oakland, CA these would be urban rather than rural environments. I thought this would be a good way to increase OLPC's visibility in the US media as well as Internationally. An OLPC international Pal (penpal) vitual exchange student program or a OLPC sister/brother Sibling school concept was one of my inspirations.

Jakub


===Georgia===
===Georgia===
* Some rumors that Georgia had a program requiring some sort of laptop, followed by several students denying such.
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Said to have a program.

it dosent have a proram i go to school in georgia.

I live in Georgia as well. No such program exist that I have heard of.
we definitely need it.


===Maine===
===Maine===
Said to have a program using Apple iBooks.
* Said to have program requiring conventional notebooks in schools.
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* Said to have a program using Apple iBooks.

===Massachusetts===


===Massachussetts===
==Native American Reservations==
* Mitt Romney, then Massachusetts governor, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitt_Romney#Governor_of_Massachusetts.2C_2003.E2.80.932007 proposed] giving every middle and high-school student an XO in 2003. The proposal did not pass the legislature.
No program yet exists here, but efforts should be started.


==See also==
See the XO Giving page at http://xogiving.org/ for information about a "Give 1/Get 1" program in the US and Canada.


= User groups and Unoffical Groups =
[[Regional_community_groups]] lists some regional community groups


Form your own regional group on the User Groups forum at olpc news: http://olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?board=4.0
* There are many, many regional groups. See [[Regional_community_groups#USA]] or [http://olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?board=4.0 the OLPCNews forum] to find a local one.
* There are various unaffiliated groups promoting OLPC in the United States. One is [[Earth_Treasury]]




[[Category:Countries|USA]]
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Revision as of 21:46, 28 April 2008

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United States

 Country Information
 ISO Country Code US
 Wikipedia Article Wikipedia Link
 Government Support Low and OLPC Priority
 Deployment Wide adoption (over 5000 machines)
 Languages
 Keyboard Layout US Layout
 Written English (en)
 Spoken English (en)
 Secondary Written None
 Secondary Spoken None

The United States (U.S.) presents a special case to OLPC deployments.

  • Most software is initially localized to the United States and so requires no additional localization.
  • Most laptops deployed in the United States are from the G1G1 program and not from school or government programs.
  • The U.S. spends significantly more than many countries on education and has been a lower priority for deployment.
  • Each of the fifty United States, plus associated territories, has great discretion on which tools it uses for education.

News and Rumors

  • 9 Jan 2008 The OLPC announced the foundation of a group, OLPC America, to bring XO laptops to American students. Details are unavailable until a launch later in 2008.

3. OLPC added a new country this week: the USA. This move will engage a wider developer community, impacting and improving software and content. Please note that such a move into schools and learning in the USA is not necessarily a commercial machine.

Deployments and Trials

Give One Get One (G1G1)

The Give One Get One Program allowed people in the United States and some other areas to purchase laptops from the OLPC Foundation at cost in return for donating a laptop for a deployment to be named later. About 80,000 units were purchased in the United States with a matching number earmarked for future deployments outside the country (cite?). Logistics marred the program's success causing delayed deliveries and far more support calls than anticipated.

Government and Official Groups

  • OLPC America will be the official organization within the OLPC Foundation providing support to U.S. deployments.
  • The OLPC Foundation is located in the United States.

States and Territories

US Virgin Islands - Waveplace

  • Note the the Virgin Islands is a United States 'territory' not a state. This leads it to have an alternate ISO country code, VI
  • Waveplace conducted a ten-week pilot on the island of Saint John.

California

  • July 6, 2007 rumor that assemblyman Ira Ruskin has a bill to fund a pilot project to encourage use of Free Textbooks in CA junior colleges.

Georgia

  • Some rumors that Georgia had a program requiring some sort of laptop, followed by several students denying such.

Maine

  • Said to have program requiring conventional notebooks in schools.
  • Said to have a program using Apple iBooks.

Massachussetts

  • Mitt Romney, then Massachusetts governor, proposed giving every middle and high-school student an XO in 2003. The proposal did not pass the legislature.


User groups and Unoffical Groups

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