OLPC Chiapas

This is a small deployment of about 40 laptops to two one-room rural schools in the forests of Chiapas, Mexico. The project Tecno-Tzotzil won one of the awards of MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media and Learning Competition

We would LOVE to use XOs for this deployment, but at present it seems not possible to obtain 40 laptops for specific schools, even if this would benefit very poor children :(. So very likely we'll end up with Intel's Classmate laps running Sugar on a stick (SOAS). If anybody knows any way to obtain the XO's please let me know...

...If we can't get the XOs we will spend this summer (2009) contributing to the SOAS open source project in order to have it running on the Classmate (it already does with a few glitches); adapting SOAS so that all interesting activities work with the most recent model of the Classmate (many currently don't); and possibly translating some activities to the tzotzil language --a few of the younger kids might not read Spanish well enough.

More details on this project at http://sites.google.com/site/tecnotzotzil/

--Jose Icaza

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Deployment Status	Deployment status::Current status: Starting project planning (May 2009). Classes start middle August.