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OLPC Paraguay Tiene su propio wiki.

OLPC Paraguay has its own Paraguay wiki (in Spanish). Most information is kept there. This page is a summary in English.

Recent updates

  • The handout of XOs in Caacupe was flawless, now we are working with the technical support CATS of Paraguay Educa, solving all types of issues. Visit our on line photo gallery: [1]
  • 20/04/2009: Laptop handout commences in Caacupé
  • 09/02/2009: 2nd phase of teacher training begins in Caacupé

The team

ParaguayEduca is an NGO founded specifically for the purposes of implementing OLPC in Paraguay. It is composed of technical, pedagogical and organisational staff. The office is located in Asunción, Paraguay.

The team has good contact with government and media.

The long term goals are to work with the government on a countrywide deployment. Initially, we are working in the city of Caacupé.

Caacupé

SWIFT has donated laptops for 3500 children and 150 teachers in 10 schools in Caacupé. Thanks to partnerships with the government and telecommunications companies, internet and electrical infrastructure has been installed in all 10 schools. Some schools painted their classrooms in green and also painted the XO logo outside the classroom walls. You can see pictures in our photo gallery [2]

The teachers are attending a total of 4 weeks of teacher training (during their vacations!!) before the laptops are being given to children.

Now the teachers are already working with the children and their XOs.

Technical details

The XOs are running OLPC OS 8.2.1 with some Paraguayan customizations:

We are running XS-0.5.1 at each school.

Network infrastructure is primarily access points with an ethernet backbone to the school server. WDS and wireless bridges are used in some situations. Internet connectivity comes in through WiMaX.


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Number of Laptops Number of manufactured laptops::4000
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Deployment Status Deployment status::Teacher training wrapping up. Plan to deploy 4K XOs in schools in Q1 2009.