OLPC Afghanistan
One Laptop Per Child Afghanistan
This is the new Official Wiki page for "One Laptop Per Child Afghanistan" project. Project GoalsAfghanistan is a very famous for being a multicultural country. Participation of the OLPC project in Afghanistan will not only revolutionize the way children are taught, but also scale up the eco-system of sharing between the diverse set of communities existing in the central Asian countries. The mission of this Nonprofit Organization is to create an environment for OLPC, take necessary steps to ensure every child in Afghanistan gets the laptop and develop the Local Activities for OLPC laptops that could revolutionize how Afghani children are educated. The goal is to provide every child in Afghanistan with new opportunities to explore, experiment, and express themselves in a collaborative way. The Ministry of Education Afghanistan (MoE), and Ministry of Communication and Information Technology Afghanistan (MoCIT), in a unique public-private partnership with USAID’s Afghanistan Small and Medium Enterprise Development (ASMED) and Telecom Development Company Afghanistan - Roshan, launched the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project in Afghanistan in September 13, 2008. Contacts and Further Information• Official OLPC Afghanistan website • Official OLPC Afghanistan Dari Weblog • Contact Salim Hayran, OLPC Afghanistan Project Coordinator • Send inquiries to info@olpc.af DeploymentsDeployment Wiki PageRead here- Information on pilot project, first and second phase of deployment and list of schools selected for implementation. Team Members InvolvedOLPC Afghanistan Team Read More about the OLPC Afghanistan team and volunteers [here Picture BlogMedia Coverage4/3/09 Huffington Post: “Afghanis Desperately want to Learn and aren't Afraid to Do So: Washington can't be Afraid to Help Them” by Matt Keller, Director of Europe, Middle East and Africa for One Laptop per Child. 3/5/09 CNN: “Laptops bring lessons, maybe even peace” 2/10/09 USAID: “One Laptop per Child Program to be Launched in Afghanistan” 1/31/09 USAID: “One Laptop Per Child program launched in Afghanistan” 9/9/08 Tech World: “How the OLPC can help beat Taliban in Afghanistan” 9/5/08 PC World: “OLPC Seeks ITU's Help to Promote Laptops” 12/12/07 CSR Wire (The Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire): “The Kite Runner Inspires Gift Through One Laptop” Technical structure and operationsThe first diagram shows the structure of Technical operations of OLPC Afghanistan. The Second one is the chart of Laptop Update and Maintenance procedure and the job of each team member. The third diagram is showing an example of networking sites available for teachers in schools. Sections: The whole Technical operations can be divided into 5 sections.
This section's responsibility is deployment of OLPC laptops to schools with all related logistics and actions.
Technical trainers are responsible for education of teachers and at the beginning of the project also for education of Technical operations staff.
User service teams provides support for teachers and schools what OLPC laptops concern – troubleshooting, documentation creation, development of new activities (programs). This team will closely cooperate with Ministry of Education on development of new content and activities for OLPC already deployed where MoE will provide the Curricular specifications and content and User service team developers will create the programming part.
Localization team is responsible for translating the current activities into Dari and Pashto. This activity will take place at the very beginning of OPLC project. See also
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See the Deployments page for deployment summary information pulled from these pages. Template:Deployment puts pages in this category. Deployment coordinators can use Has default form::Form:Deployment to edit these pages; look for an 'edit with form' tab on them. Afghanistan | ||||||||||||||
