Talk:OLPC Egypt

One of the most important issues for the projects success In Egypt is the actually planning, and eductaion of these children. What kind of results are they expecting, how will they know if its a success or not? and what exactly are these kids going to do with the laptop aside from Rosetta Stone Language software, I am not familiar with other educational applications. It is true that alot of private schools now perform alot of their work online, but again what software work is geared towards this project?

There should be no difference in the goals and success measures of this initiative in Egypt than in any other country in the world. It is the enablement of constructionist education in the developing world.

The challenge of making software available is a mixed challenge of localization and encouraging local production of educational material. I have seen some promising initiative that were lacking a platform for distribution (other than selling educational software CDs) and a strategy. Hopefully this initiative will help provide both of those.