Nepal:Pilot Project Plan

Pilot Details

Nepal's Department of Education is planning to pilot OLPC at a test school in April of 2008. Nepal's Minister of Education, Pradip Nepal, strongly support the OLPC program. Currently, the pilot is planned at a Kathmandu-area school. The Danish IT Society has generously donated roughly 200 XO laptops for the pilot.

OLE Nepal is coordinating many aspects of pilot including teacher training, learning activity development, networking, and hardware deployment.

Testing Plans

• Hardware
• Activities
• Networking
• Power

Team Members

From the Department of Education:

• Baburam Poudel, oversees pilot implementation
• Khaga Raj Poudel, assists Baburam
• Kamal Kafle, computer engineer
• Arjun Aryal, computer engineer

From OLE Nepal

• Dr. Saurav Dev Bhatta, Teacher training and overrall lead
• Bryan Berry, lead systems engineer
• Sulochan Acharya, systems engineer

Other groups involved:

• FOSS Nepal is helping with localization - Subir Pradhanang and Basanta Shrestha particularly
• Nepal Wireless will help with wireless networking
• OLPC Nepal Localization and activity development

Timeline

Feb 5th - Submit use cases and Requirements