Talk:OLPC Europe/Institutions

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OLPC's mission of learning kids to program = learning kids to learn is as important as bringing an open source, open community, open software, open robotics laptop
We have very complex educational landscapes: many players organise education in a country. So a lot more attention has to be given to the "information, sensibilisation, capacity building phase" than in e.g. Uruguay, Peru, Rwanda, where the Ministry of Education runs the whole educational landscape basically. Nicholas NEGROPONTE also gives this as the main reason why the educational landscape in the USA is so slow in picking up the XO-XS: Negroponte: The U.S. is a much harder problem. The system itself is part of the problem. Last I looked there were 15,000 school districts. How do you deal with 15,000 districts? You can’t really make the kinds of changes we found ourselves able to do in Ethiopia, Rwanda, Uruguay or Peru. So it’s a harder problem, the way it’s organized the way it’s financed. More: http://newsroom.cisco.com/feature/1240339/Network-Trailblazer-A-Conversation-with-Nicholas-Negroponte-Founder-One-Laptop-per-Child?utm_medium=rss

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