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Large-Scale Deployment
Ghana has signed an agreement with OLPC to purchase 10,000 XOs, scheduled for delivery in June 2009. This is following a smaller initial pilot of 100 laptops (more info below). The initiative to develop the capacity of Ghanaian youth has always been of primary concern to the President of Ghana. Ghana’s 2007 Budget Statement and Economic Policy of the Government of Ghana (Page 299, Paragraph 1310), indicates that Government will enhance the usage of computers in schools. The Ministry of Education, Science and Sports collaborating with Ministry of Communication has been tasked to oversee the implementation of this program.
Baah-Wiredu Laptop per Child Foundation (named for the late finance minister who championed OLPC) is coordinating the deployment. The Foundation was given a mandate by outgoing President Kufuor to find funding for a million XOs in 2009. The Foundation and core team members are now preparing for the arrival of the machines.
First Phase Launch Schools
We have two pilot in Ghana, of about 40 laptops each. One in the capitol city of Accra, in a public school 4th grade classroom. This deployment has a server but no internet access. The other is in a rural village, Bonsaso, which by the way has no electricity (in the village, not just the school). For that deployment, individual solar panels were given to the students. At this writing, the rural deployment does not yet have a server or internet - we are waiting for a low-power server to be shipped.
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December Ghana Planning Workshop, 2008
For the week of December 14, 2008 the Ghanaian core team visited OLPC headquarters in Cambridge, MA to plan for the deployment of 10,000 XO laptops.
Ms. Agatha Gaisie-Nketsiah and Mr. Maxwell Akornor presented on the Baah-Wiredu Laptop Fouindation, named in honor of the late Minister of Finance & Economic Planning, the current state of education in Ghana and also experiences from the first phase launch.
OLPC employees also presented:
Richard Smith, Director of Embedded Engineering: Laptop Power
Robert Fadel, Vice President of International Operations: Current Initiatives
Ed McNeirney, Vice President of Software Development: Software
Reuben Caron, Country Techincal Support Engineer: Country Technical Support
John Watlington, Vice President of Hardware Advancement: Hardware
External links
- The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Project and Its Applicability to Ghana Report
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