OLPC Ethiopia

2007 status: green
green

see also the Ethiopian Millenium Gift Project

Project

The Ethio-German Engineering Capacity Building Project of Ethiopia (ecbp) is in charge of distributing 5000 XO laptops to Ethiopian schools. These laptops were donated to the country as a result of the 2006 Give One Get One promotion, and follows on from successful trials of 60 laptops in classes in Addis Ababa.

EduVision

EduVision are partnered with the project. They produce an interactive textbook activity, known as Akili (formerly Melepo). Akili is written in C++ and uses Qt, WebKit and libqsugar. The textbooks are represented in a custom XML format. It is private, proprietary software.

Most of the Ethiopian curriculum textbooks are included on the laptops in the form of Akili files.

Eduvision has published [a report about the impact of Melepo on the 2nd set of trials in Addis Ababa.

Status

The 5000 laptops are being delivered to schools during September/October 2008.

Localization

Translations

Translations to Amharic will happen when the team has time. Translations to Oromo are also planned, as Oromia is one of the regions that will recieve laptops.

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