OLPC Afghanistan

One Laptop Per Child Afghanistan This is the new Official Wiki page for "One Laptop Per Child Afghanistan" project. Technology is playing an increasingly potent role within development, especially so in Afghanistan.Opening the flow of technology and information to Afghanistan’s youth has potential to better thefuture political, economic and social stabilization of the country. The team at One Laptop Per Child partnered with Ministry of Education Afghanistan (MoE), Ministry of Communication and Information Technology Afghanistan (MoCIT), USAID’s Afghanistan Small and Medium Enterprise Development (ASMED) and Telecom Development Company Afghanistan to fight the insurgency with XO laptops. Especially crucial for rural areas with power constraints, this XO model only uses about 25% of the power usage of a regular laptop, and has the ability to be solar or foot powered (link to video). These computers will be integrated into teaching curricula, providing students with a vast educational resource, access to word processing, and many other educational programs, email, and internet browser software. Families will then have access to training, job information, and resources to develop and improve farms and small businesses through the XO laptop. Targeting current and historical conflict zones, including Afghanistan, correlates with OLPC’s mission of offering equal-access education to the most isolated children in the world-- with the additional advantage of promoting world peace. Although providing immediate relief for health and infrastructure appear to be of more critical importance in war ridden areas, in order to fully rebuild a war torn region, educating the youth and future leaders provide the most hope in the construction of a politically stable country. Project Goals The Afghanistan OLPC project will revolutionize the way in which children are taught and promote cooperation between the diverse set of communities existing in central Asia. The goal of OLPC Afghanistan is to provide every child with new opportunities to explore, experiment, and express themselves in a collaborative way. Mission: To create a fit environment for OLPC, take necessary steps to ensure every child in Afghanistan receives an XO laptop and develop the Local Activities for OLPC laptops that could revolutionize how Afghani children are educated. 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 Deployments Deployment Wiki Page Read here Information on pilot project, first and second phase of deployment and list of schools selected for implementation. Team Members Involved OLPC Afghanistan Team Sohaib Obaidi Ebtihaj Usman Mansour Ansari Mohammad Hamed Quraishi Read More about the OLPC Afghanistan team and volunteers [here] Media Coverage 4/3/09 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” Picture Blog via Picassa [1] via Flickr [2] See also OLPC Afghanistan/Job descriptions - jobs needed for the project, not necessarily filled OLPC Afghanistan Stakeholders Technical Structure and Operations External links Lets Explore the XO One Laptop Per Child Afghanistan official website PAIWASTOON OLPC Afghanistan Dari Blog OLPC Afghanistan Dari Wiki Page OLPC Afghanistan on Wikipedia OLPC Afghanistan Sugar-Labs wiki Page Facebook group Official OLPC Afghanistan Facebook group Primary Language ,|x|Language spoken::x}} Number of Laptops Number of manufactured laptops::5000 Keyboard Layout Keyboard::OLPC Dari Keyboard Build ,|x|Software release::x}} Date(s) Arrived in Country ,|x|Has received laptops on date::x}} School Server ,|x|School server status::x}} Deployment Status Deployment status::Started with Paiwastoon. The first few hundred arrived in 2008, and the rest throughout 2009. This category is only for pages that describe an OLPC deployment. Category:Deployment planning is for pages about the topic of deployments. 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