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Mabuhay! Welcome to OLPC Philippines

OLPC Philippines (OLPC PH) is a grassroots coalition of forward-looking and like-minded individuals living in the Philippines and abroad who are working to bring the XO Children's Machine and its unique educational methodology to Filipino children. Please join and share your ideas!

To join us, subscribe to the olpc-philippines mailing list and introduce yourself. We often send announcements and have discussions on this list.

If you are new to wikis, you may want to read the Wikieducator tutorial (in English) or ask the mailing list for help. For quick tips and to learn wiki syntax, reading the Wiki help page would be a good start.

Use the talk page / Discussion page for your comment, updates, especially blog sites within the Philippines or relevant sites that discussed about OLPC Philippines. Thank you.

About the Philippines

From the Wikipedia entry about Philippines:

The Philippines (officially known as the Republic of the Philippines), is an archipelagic country located in Southeast Asia with Manila as its capital city. The Philippine archipelago comprises 7,107 islands in the western Pacific Ocean, sharing maritime borders with Indonesia, Malaysia, Palau, the Republic of China (Taiwan), and Vietnam. The Philippines is the world's 12th most populous country with a population approaching 90 million people. Its national economy is the 46th largest in the world with an estimated 2008 gross domestic product (GDP) of over US$154.073 billion. There are more than 11 million overseas Filipinos worldwide, the largest diaspora network in the world, about 11% of the total population of the Philippines. Ecologically, Philippines is considered to be among 17 of the most megadiverse countries in the world.

OLPC PH Projects

These are the projects OLPC PH is currently involved with:

Community Activities

January 2009

December 2008

  • Carlos Nazareno Brought one of the XO-1 units to the Philweavers christmas party, adding awareness about OLPC to the Philippine Web Designer/Developer community.

September 2008

August 2008

Developer Updates

OLPC PH Meetings

Please see /Meetings for upcoming meeting times and agendas, as well as past meeting minutes.

External Resources

The non-wiki site is at http://olpcph.multiply.com. There is also a group of supporters for OLPC Philippines at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=8363657036

New OLPC Philippines site http://www.olpcph.co.cc

OLPC PH Wiki Archive

You can still access the OLPC PH Wiki Archive.