Nepal:Pilot Project Plan
Pilot Details
Nepal's Department of Education is planning to pilot OLPC at a test school in April of 2008. Nepal's Minister of Education, Pradip Nepal, strongly support the OLPC program. Currently, the pilot is planned at a Kathmandu-area school. The Danish IT Society has generously donated roughly 200 XO laptops for the pilot.
50 laptops should arrive in Mid-March and the remainder will arrive early April. The pilot will take place at a single school in the outskirts of Kathmandu. Laptops will be piloted in grades 2 and 6 (ages 6 and 11).
OLE Nepal is coordinating many aspects of pilot including teacher training, learning activity development, networking, and hardware deployment.
Team Members
From the Department of Education:
- Baburam Poudel, oversees pilot implementation
- Khaga Raj Poudel, assists Baburam
- Kamal Kafle, computer engineer
- Arjun Aryal, computer engineer
From OLE Nepal
- Dr. Saurav Dev Bhatta, Teacher training and curriculum development for the pilot
- Bryan Berry, lead systems engineer
- Sulochan Acharya, systems engineer
Other groups involved:
- FOSS Nepal is helping with localization - Subir Pradhanang and Basanta Shrestha particularly
- Nepal Wireless will help connect the school to the Internet using Wifi Point-to-Point links
- OLPC Nepal Localization and activity development
Personnel Needs: Need to designate someone to test and prepare the power solutions. Ram Krishna Singh would be ideal but he is very busy developing activities for the pilot.
Timeline
Feb 5th - Submit use cases and Requirements
Teacher Training Plan
Testing Plans
- Hardware
- Activities
- Networking
- Power