OLPCorps CMU RIT AN Nigeria

Proposal

We will deploy at St. Paul's Primary School in Nigeria, which has 420 students. Many of the students are orphans or from poor families. The proprietor of the school is related to one of our group members. We will work closely with the proprietor and teachers to integrate the XO laptop into the daily lessons in Math, Social Studies, English, and Science. In addition, we will start a program to teach the children blogging and video blogging. The program will 1) raise awareness of African issues around the world and 2) teach the children to write and communicate effectively. We will create the blogs / video blogs with a content management system such as Drupal and host them on a dedicated virtual server such as Amazon EC2. We will cross post the content to established sites such as YouTube.

Group Members

• Okon Sunday David is a Theology student at Africa Nazarene University. He has worked at St. Paul's before and is related to the proprietor. St. Paul's is located in his home village.
• Becca Nelson is a student at RIT and has extensive experience working with non-profits in Africa. She has specifically worked at computer training centers in Kenya.
• Bryant Lee holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. He has created and maintained previous Web 2.0 sites and has managed computer servers. He has published numerous scientific papers. www.cs.cmu.edu/~bryantl

Budget

for the three team member to travel to Abak in Akwa Ibom state Nigeria,with 100 laptop and return will cost $6000 the feeding from June to August = $1000 Internet connection $500 Toiletry =$300 Projector=$700 miscellaneous $600