OLPC Nepal

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Nepal

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Country Information
ISO Country Code	NP
Wikipedia Article	Wikipedia Link
Government Support	Sponsored Trials
Deployment	Trial (50 to 500 machines)
Languages
Keyboard Layout	Nepali Layout
Written	Nepali (ne)
Spoken	Nepali (ne)
Secondary Written	Various dialects
Secondary Spoken	Various dialects

'Nepal नेपाल '
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Nepal_map.png
Capital	Kathmandu
Official languages	Nepali
Area	147,181 km²
Population
- July 2007 estimate	28,901,790
- 2003 census	23,151,423
- Density	184/km²
Education
- Literacy (%)	48.6
- Compulsory Years
- Compulsory Age
- Pop. in School Age
- Pop. in School
GDP (PPP) 2006 est.	USD 48.18 billion
- Per capita	1,500
GDP (nominal)  est.
- Per capita
HDI  (2007)	0.534 (medium)
Gini Index  (2003–04)	47.2
Time zone	NPT (UTC+5:45)
Internet TLD	.np
Calling code	++977
More statistics...

Nepal has had perhaps the most active grassroots OLPC community, that became active in the fall of 2006. The OLPC Nepal movement has needed to develop its deployment plans, school server architecture, and strategies of interfacing with government. The most active members of the OLPC community within Nepal formed a local non-profit organization in July 2007, OLE Nepal, to implement Nepal's initial OLPC deployments. All of these became the exemplars for later deployments.

News

• April 25, 2008: OLE Nepal launches wide trial in Bashuki and Bishwamitra schools
• March 27, 2008 : OLPC Nepal launches a "Sunrise" trial at Janajyoti school.
• July 2007: Members of the OLPC Nepal community form OLE Nepal to implement Nepal's pilots

Additional Information Sources

• Mailing List: nepal@lists.laptop.org
• IRC Channel: #olpcnepal @ irc.freenode.net
• The large OLPC Nepal Category
• The unofficial OLPC News Nepal Section
• The OLE Nepal Website, especially their blog.
• The CIA's world factbook.

Deployments and Trials

OLE Nepal in Bashuki and Bishwamitra schools

On April 25, 2008, OLE Nepal launched Phase I of the Nepal OLPC deployment. This involved distribution of 135 XOs at two pilot schools, with accompanying curriculum both developed and in development. These XOs joined 22 XOs distributed a month earlier to teachers, who received training prior to developing classroom lesson plans for the Phase I launch.

Evaluation of Phase I will be ongoing, so that as many lessons can be learned, and adjustments made, for future deployments.

• Some relevant items from the blog:
  • The School Server w/ emphasis on Moodle
  • Monthly Game Jams

Sunrise trial at Janajyoti school

See the OLPC Nepal blog discussion about the start of the trial here.

Historical Planning Documents

These pages are preserved to show the history but they are dated now and do not show actual deployment design.

• Nepal:Pilot Project Plan
• Nepal:School Server Specification
• Nepal:School Server Specification - Phase 1 Design

Groups

OLE Nepal

OLE Nepal is a local Nepali NGO that has a memorandum of understanding with Nepal's Department of Education to implement Nepal's pilots at Bashuki and Bishwamitra. For more information visit their wiki page or [website].

• OLE Nepal
• OLE Nepal Community All about the people involved, what they are working on, and areas in need of help.

Nepal Government

Nepal Government has three-tier committees to implement OLPC in Nepal under Ministry of Education.

• Steering Committee -- Secretary of Ministry of Education chairs this
• Coordination Committee -- Director of Department of Education chairs this
• Task Force -- Deputy Director of Department of Education chairs this