OLPC Afghanistan

One Laptop Per Child Afghanistan This is the new Official Wiki page for "One Laptop Per Child Afghanistan" project. The old page is archived at [One Laptop Per Child Afghanistan]. Project Goals Afghanistan is a very famous for being a multicultural country. Participation of the OLPC 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 in the central Asian countries. The mission of this Nonprofit Organization is to create an environment for OLPC, take necessary steps to ensure every child in Afghanistan gets the laptop and 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 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 Team Members Involved Volunteer Team Sohaib Obaidi Ebtihaj Usman Mansour Ansari Mohammad Hamed Quraishi Read More about the OLPC Afghanistan volunteers [here OLPC Afghanistan Team Read about the OLPC Afghanistan Team here Join the FaceBook group for fresh and updated news as well. Information on the Pre-Selected Schools for Implementation Here is the list of schools in 5 provinces of Afghanistan. OLPC Laptops will be deployed to all Kabul schools and 25 selected schools in other provinces. Here is the list of schools for pre-selection: Kabul Baghlan Balkh Herat Nengarhar Second Deployment OLPC entered its second phase of deployment on June 21st, when students in grades 4-6 in four Kabul schools were given 2000 laptops. Upcoming updates of this deployment will be coming soon. Deployment Wiki Page Read here Picture Blog View pictures 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” 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 OLPC Afghanistan/Job descriptions - jobs needed for the project, not necessarily filled OLPC Afghanistan Stakeholders External links Lets Explore the XO One Laptop Per Child Afghanistan official website PAIWASTOON OLPC Afghanistan Dari Blog OLPC Afghanistan Dari Wiki Page OLPC Afghanistan on Wikipedia OLPC Afghanistan Sugar-Labs wiki Page 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