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Haiti

Country Information
ISO Country Code	HT
Wikipedia Article	Wikipedia Link
Government Support	Sponsored Trials
Deployment	Demonstration (under 50 machines)
Languages
Keyboard Layout	US and Kreyòl/French Layouts
Written	Kreyòl/Haitian Creole(ht)
Spoken	Kreyòl/Haitian Creole(ht)
Secondary Written	French (fr)
Secondary Spoken	French (fr)

The vast majority of XOs in Haiti originate from a 2008 pilot program co-financed by the Give One Get One program and the Inter-American Development Bank.<ref>"JawadHaiti Earthquake 2010 (Part One)". Archived from the original. Template:Citation error. http://saigonolpc.wordpress.com/tag/earthquake/. </ref> Since the the 2010 Haiti Earthquake, dozens of smaller pilots and grassroots efforts have continued the implementation of XOs in Haiti. The OLPC map currently lists over 30 deployments in six of the ten geographical departments of Haiti. Major challenges in the deployment of XOs in Haiti include lack of widely available internet and electricity, school damage due to earthquakes, and localization of software and course material to Haitian Creole.

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Number of Laptops	Number of manufactured laptops::13700
Keyboard Layout	Keyboard::OLPC_French_(ca)(ht)_Keyboard
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Date(s) Arrived in Country	,\|x\|Has received laptops on date::x}}
School Server	,\|x\|School server status::x}}
Deployment Status	[[Deployment status::Target of 13.7K XOs, release 8.1.0 or later. Actual amount deployed unknown.]]

Deployments and Trials

Sponsor	Dates	Location	Laptops	Description
Inter-American Development Bank	2008			InterAmerican Development Bank (IDB) is planning a wide trial of 13,200 laptops. IDB is contributing $3,000,000, OLPC is contributing $2,000,000 (presumably in laptops from G1G1), and SES Global is donating bandwidth. IDB Project Page (Project HA-T1093) February 14, 2008 Press Release from IDB
Waveplace	February 20, 2008	Port-au-Prince	700	See videos and field notes. Laptops used used US keyboards from G1G1 program.
Waveplace	June 2009	Petite Rivière Des Nippes	23
Waveplace	Spring 2010	Île de la Gonâve, Archaie, Léogâne, Petite-Rivière-de-Nippes	170	24 schools
		Port-au-Prince		At College Mixte de l'Experience, young school north of Port-au-Prince's airport experimenting with XOs.
Haitian-American Caucus		Croix-des-Bouquets		At the Ecole Shalom.
Child in Hand	March 2012	Port-au-Prince, Grand-Goave		Child in Hand sponsored deployments at Mission of Hope Intl. in Grand-Goave ^(map) and the ORAEDH orphanage in PAP ^(map).

OLPC Haiti News: http://www.olpcnews.com/countries/haiti/
Video from Haitian government: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xaaayr_le-projet-xo-olpc-haiti_tech
Feedback from the Haitian XO Deployment, a presentation from Bastien Guerry & Wanda Eugene, members of the OLPC Learning Team who spent a summer in Haiti.