OLPC Europe/Pilots

Pilots by country

Austria

• OLPC Europe/Pilots/Austria
• Starting test projects with 3 or 4 schools, each one class (spring 08)
• Contact: simon, aaron, tano, margery

Switzerland

• http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Switzerland
• Planning a test focussing 'collaboration and Communication storyboards' with 2 Classes in two different school.( trying to get 50 XO's)
• Contact: Michele Notari, Beat Doebeli, Martin Hofmann

UK Digital Divide with a G1G1 dimension

• Project: UK Digital Divide with a G1G1 twist.
• Proposer: Mike Kiely
• Other Contributors: programmers from Predictable Network Solutions
• Audience or Impact; Our initial audience is BECTA, the UK GOV IT provisioning department for all Gov funded schools and colleges in the UK.
• Brief Descriptions; Two objectives. 1) Get the OLPC on BECTA assessment list for the £30m project to help poor uk kids to get connected to the internet, with a proposal that any OLPC purchase would also purchase an equivalent number for a developing country. 2) We also wish to assess the OLPC as a communication device for other disadvantaged groups, by loading and testing the ekiga sip client on several UK Broadband connections. The notion is to support other disadvantaged groups to get connected.
• Relevant expeience and other projects; 20 years creating and launching communication services in the UK.

if needing Xo; 2 XO's needed for 6 months, happy to purchase.