User:GJavetski

About Me

My name is Gillian Javetski and I am an intern at OLPC's Cambridge office this summer. I am a senior at Tufts University, where I am double majoring in international relations and community health. I took this past semester off to work at the United Nations Development Programme's HIV/AIDS unit in Geneva. At OLPC, I will be conducting research on UN and international partnerships.

Work at OLPC

• Blog posts (both writing and editing)
  • Afghanistan blog posts, including one, two, three --> Go through and select photos for Afghanistan blog posts
  • Other blog posts, including XO 1.5HS, Indonesian laptop
• UNICEF/Afghanistan wiki page and research, including foreign aid data
  • Correspond with Mike Dawson, met with Matt and Salim
  • Afghanistan budget research for Matt; spoke with contacts at a variety of think tanks and USAID
  • Research on incorporating an NGO in Afghanistan
  • Work on Afghanistan grant process, do research, create google docs, beginning to add information, met with Barbara for information
  • UNICEF/Afghanistan memo
• WFP/Nepal wiki page: corresponded with Nepal team
• Haiti Partners/Haiti wiki page: met with Adam to discuss Haiti
• Working with/checking in on volunteers on IRC Chat
  • Worked on Class/Act Resources with Shirish
• Events: Conference call on education with tinygames (6/17), meeting on Realness Conference (6/17), call with Reverend Franck Boah (6/18), RIT Hackfest (7/8), MIT Media Lab (7/12), meeting with Salim (7/16), OLPC Conference (7/17)
• Twittering daily
  • Updating microblog wiki page
• XO 1.5 HS teardown and photos

Timeline/To Do List

• July 28-31st: wrote blog posts about Afghanistan and 1.5HS, put grant application and SF424 up, continue working on Nepal wiki page.
• August 2-August 6: Look at Matt's research request about incorporating an office in Afghanistan, email Nepal group for feedback and incorporate feedback, go through OLE newsletters, Haiti wiki page
• August 9-13: post tear down instructions, work with Paul on RTC problems, Rwanda wiki page, write additional 2 blog posts on 1.5HS, make wiki page on country statistics (number of primary school students, public private distinction, gender gap) from UNESCO, Ethiopia wiki page
• August 16-24: home for vacation
• August 24-September 4: working on and finalizing white papers

Educational Initiatives

Summary of Educational Development Initiatives in Haiti

Name of Organization	Investment in Country	People/Major Projects
UNICEF
WFP
WHO
UNESCO
UNDP
IFRC
The Catholic Church
World Vision:
Save the Children
USAID
SOS Children's Villages
World Bank

1. UNICEF's State of the World's Children 2009 Statistics

Categories	Numbers
Total adult literacy rate (%), 2000-2007
Primary school net enrolment/ attendance (%), 2000-2007
Youth (15–24 years)literacy rate 2000–2007 (male)
Youth (15–24 years)literacy rate 2000–2007 (female)
Percentage of phone users 2006
Percentage of internet users 2006
Primary school enrollment ratio gross 2000-2007 (male)
Primary school enrollment ratio gross 2000-2007 (female)
Primary school enrollment ratio net 2000-2007 (male)
Primary school enrollment ratio net 2000-2007 (female)
Primary school attendance ratio net 2000-2007 (male)
Primary school attendance ratio net 2000-2007 (female)
Survival rate to last primary grade (%) 2000–2007 (administrative data)
Survival rate to last primary grade (%) 2000–2007 (survey data)
Secondary school enrollment ratio gross 2000-2007 (male)
Secondary school enrollment ratio gross 2000-2007 (female)
Secondary school enrollment ratio net 2000-2007 (male)
Secondary school enrollment ratio net 2000-2007 (female)
Secondary school attendance ratio net 2000-2007 (male)
Secondary school attendance ratio net 2000-2007 (female)

List available data where easy to find; list but leave blank elsewhere.

• Government expenses and budgets
• International aid investments (focused on education; break out by country/org where available)
• Census stats relating to children (cf. Wikipedia's country template & World Factbook data)