OLPC Laos
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FAQ from Teachers in Lao PDR
- Will this laptop be available in Laos?
- How will the teachers be trained?
- Which age of children is the laptop for? (5-10,10-15,15-graduade)?
- My sallary is 20$ in one month and I have 4 children. How can I pay 100$ per kid?
- Does it also work with 220V Socket without cranking?
- Does the teachers get the PC before the children get one?
- Is this project only for rich countries like Thailand and China?
- Is there a phone hotline where I can get more infos about this project?
Other questions
- Is there a contact to the Lao PDR government?
- Who will translate things to Lao language - there is no big open source community?
- The Lao PDR government does not have much money. To sell wood from primary forests maybe is the only possibility to finance this project. Are there alternatives?
- To build the education infrastruction for OLPC may take a long time - when does this task starts? Isn't that more time critical then the hardware?