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Summary overview of stories from countries and Trials.


  • Country/trials/schools - news from OLPC implementation sites.

Some links to a few more: Countries


Last week : Suzanne Buchele started working with other teachers in Ghana, introducing them to the XO; and upgraded her XOs to the latest stable build (after brief confusion about how to update).

Tim is pushing to get XOs for his upcoming trip to Haiti, in advance of the larger shipment they are receiving later this month.

This week : Larry Weber of OLPC PR firm the W2 Group, has been working to help get 100 laptops to Kliptown, South Africa. Whitney Hunter-Thomson is travelling there in a week, to prepare the ground before the laptops arrive in March. She has been boning up on OLPC ideas and implementation stories, and is visiting the offices this week in Cambridge. She aims to get in touch with members of OLPC South Africa before she travels, to help start a local support group there. Anyone with contacts near Joburg is invited to get in touch with her.