Deployment Guide/Workbook

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One Laptop per Child (OLPC) Deployment Workbook

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This is a workbook for estimating the cost of a large-scale deployment of one laptop per child. It is a working document that reflects lessons learned from our initial pilots and deployments. Additional ideas will be incorporated as we learn from each other.

It is provided in Microsoft Excel format: Deployment_Workbook.xls

Introduction

This workbook contains six worksheets. There are two worksheets for use in planning: Country and School. The Country worksheet takes information about overall number of laptops and rough percentages of schools and provides a rough estimate of the costs. The School worksheet takes detailed information about a particular school and provides an estimate of the required infrastructure, power, and costs given different power scenarios.

These estimated costs depend on the accuracy of the system component costs specified in the Laptop Costs, Program Costs, and Other Costs worksheets. While the defaults provided are based on commercially available components, these must be updated to reflect current and local prices for these components before using this workbook to estimate costs.