OLPC Mexico

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2007 status: red
  red      
Estado actual: rojo

UPDATE: We are trying to concentrate efforts geared towards the deployment of the OLPC in Spanish speaking countries in the Americas in a single page: OLPC Spanish America.

ATENCIÓN: Estamos tratando de concentrar los esfuerzos destinados al desarrollo de la OLPC en los países de habla Castellana en las Américas en una página central: OLPC Spanish America.


Education in Mexico
Educational oversight
Minister of Public Education
[Secretaria of Public Education]
[Josefina Vázquez Mota]
[Funding|National education budget] [Mexican peso|MXN]$501.214 billion ([2004])
[Language|Primary language(s) of education] [Spanish language|Spanish]. Available also in [Nahuatl language|Náhuatl] and other minority languages.
Nationalized system
Establishment

[September 25], [1921]
[Literacy] (2000)
 • Men
 • Women
90.5 %
92.5 %
88.6 %
Enrollment
 • [Primary education|Primary]
 • [Secondary education|Secondary]
 • [Post-secondary education|Post-secondary]
26.6 million
18.5 million
5.8 million
2.3 million
Attainment
 • [Secondary education|Secondary diploma]
 • [Post-secondary education|Post-secondary diploma]

N/A
N/A
Sources: Sistema Educativo de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos. Principales cifras, ciclo escolar 2003-2004 [pdf] and the 2000 Census ([National Institute of Statistics, Geography, and Data Processing|INEGI])



MÉXICO: An important bond between the equipment of OLPC Colombia and the interested ones in Mexico has been created.

MÉXICO: Se ha establecido un vínculo importante entre el equipo de OLPC Colombia y los interesados de echar a andar este proyecto en México.

News

OLPC Spanish America/Latest News

Other Proyects

  • Ukini Open Knowledge Initiative to leverage the digital divide in Mexican Education System


Telesecundarias

Telesecundaria is a Televsion based system of distance education programs for secondary and high school students created by the government of Mexico in 1968 and available in rural areas of the country as well as Central America, South America, Canada and the United States via satellite (Solidaridad 1 and Satmex 5).

The project broadcasts more than 4,000 programs on a dedicated tv network available from satellite dish and a television. Currently more than 16,000 rural locations serve nearly one million students.

Documentation