User:GJavetski

About Me

My name is Gillian Javetski and I am an intern at OLPC's Cambridge office this summer. I am a senior at Tufts University, where I am double majoring in international relations and community health. I took this past semester off to work at the United Nations Development Programme's HIV/AIDS unit in Geneva. At OLPC, I will be conducting research on UN and international partnerships.

Work at OLPC

• Blog posts (both writing and editing)
  • Afghanistan blog posts, including one, two, three --> Go through and select photos for Afghanistan blog posts
  • Other blog posts, including XO 1.5HS, Indonesian laptop
• UNICEF/Afghanistan wiki page and research, including foreign aid data
  • Correspond with Mike Dawson, met with Matt and Salim
  • Afghanistan budget research for Matt; spoke with contacts at a variety of think tanks and USAID
  • Research on incorporating an NGO in Afghanistan
  • Work on Afghanistan grant process, do research, create google docs, beginning to add information, met with Barbara for information
  • UNICEF/Afghanistan memo
• WFP/Nepal wiki page: corresponded with Nepal team
• Haiti Partners/Haiti wiki page: met with Adam to discuss Haiti
• Working with/checking in on volunteers on IRC Chat
  • Worked on Class/Act Resources with Shirish
• Events: Conference call on education with tinygames (6/17), meeting on Realness Conference (6/17), call with Reverend Franck Boah (6/18), RIT Hackfest (7/8), MIT Media Lab (7/12), meeting with Salim (7/16), OLPC Conference (7/17)
• Twittering daily
  • Updating microblog wiki page
• XO 1.5 HS teardown and photos

Timeline/To Do List

• July 28-31st: wrote blog posts about Afghanistan and 1.5HS, put grant application and SF424 up, continue working on Nepal wiki page.
• August 2-August 6: Look at Matt's research request about incorporating an office in Afghanistan, email Nepal group for feedback and incorporate feedback, go through OLE newsletters, Haiti wiki page
• August 9-13: post tear down instructions, work with Paul on RTC problems, Rwanda wiki page, write additional 2 blog posts on 1.5HS, make wiki page on country statistics (number of primary school students, public private distinction, gender gap) from UNESCO, Ethiopia wiki page
• August 16-24: home for vacation
• August 24-September 4: working on and finalizing white papers

Wiki Background info

Relevant data

List available data where easy to find; list but leave blank elsewhere.

• Basic education stats (from the UNICEF state of the world's children report)
• Census stats relating to children (cf. Wikipedia's country template & World Factbook data)
• Government expenses and budgets
• International aid investments (focused on education; break out by country/org where available)

Lists of global orgs

Add the following for each of our countries: what major projects are run/sponsored by

• UNICEF
• WFP
• WHO
• UNESCO
• UNDP
• Red Cross/Red Crescent
• the Catholic Church
• World Vision (they publish stories from war-torn regions and related project data) - on the Mideast and Afghanistan
• Save the Children (they're helping run the UN Education Cluster)
• USAID
• SOS Children's Villages
• World Bank (and the Inter-American Development Bank, in LatAm)