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Nepal

 Country Information
 ISO Country Code NP
 Wikipedia Article Wikipedia Link
 Government Support Sponsored Trials
 Deployment Trial (50 to 500 machines)
 Languages
 Keyboard Layout Nepali Layout
 Written Nepali (ne)
 Spoken Nepali (ne)
 Secondary Written Various dialects
 Secondary Spoken Various dialects


'Nepal नेपाल
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Capital Kathmandu
Official languages Nepali
Area 147,181 km²
Population
 - July 2007 estimate 28,901,790
 - 2003 census 23,151,423
 - Density 184/km²
Education
 - Literacy (%) 48.6
 - Compulsory Years
 - Compulsory Age
 - Pop. in School Age
 - Pop. in School
GDP (PPP) 2006 est. USD 48.18 billion
 - Per capita 1,500
GDP (nominal)  est.
 - Per capita
HDI  (2007) 0.534 (medium)
Gini Index  (2003–04) 47.2
Time zone NPT (UTC+5:45)
Internet TLD .np
Calling code ++977
More statistics...

Nepal has had perhaps the most active grassroots OLPC community, that became active in the fall of 2006. The OLPC Nepal movement has needed to develop its deployment plans, school server architecture, and strategies of interfacing with government. The most active members of the OLPC community within Nepal formed a local non-profit organization in July 2007, OLE Nepal, to implement Nepal's initial OLPC deployments. All of these became the exemplars for later deployments.

News

Additional Information Sources

Deployments and Trials

OLE Nepal in Bashuki and Bishwamitra schools

OLPC launched at Bashuki and Bishwamitra schools on April 25th, 2008. Open Learning Exchange Nepal (OLE Nepal) distributed a total of 135 OLPC laptops to grade 2 and 6 students from two schools in the outskirts of Kathmandu Valley. These were addition to the 22 laptops that were handed out to teachers from the schools during the teacher preparation program held a month ago. The laptop project was undertaken in partnership with Nepal government’s Department of Education (DoE). This project is part of OLE Nepal’s mission to increase quality of education while reducing current disparity in access and quality between school types, regions, and population groups by integrating ICT-based education in daily teaching-learning process. The laptops for the project were donated by the Danish IT Society in Copenhagen.

These pilots focus on integrating laptops into the Nepali educational system and measuring their impact. The laptops and relevant software have been integrated into the Nepali curriculum and teaching process for grades two and six, subjects Mathematics and English. We at OLE Nepal believe that the central challenge of this project is not to get children to use the constructionist tools within t


Sunrise trial at Janajyoti school

See the OLPC Nepal blog discussion about the start of the trial here.

Nepal Pilot Sites

Many planning documents were produced for this early deployment. Some of these were incorporated in later documents for general deployments.

Historical Planning Documents

These pages are preserved to show the history but they are dated now and do not show actual deployment design.

Groups

OLE Nepal

OLE Nepal is a local Nepali NGO that has a memorandum of understanding with Nepal's Department of Education to implement Nepal's pilots at Bashuki and Bishwamitra. For more information visit their wiki page or [website].

  • OLE Nepal Community All about the people involved, what they are working on, and areas in need of help.

Nepal Government

Nepal Government has three-tier committees to implement OLPC in Nepal under Ministry of Education.

  • Steering Committee -- Secretary of Ministry of Education chairs this
  • Coordination Committee -- Director of Department of Education chairs this
  • Task Force -- Deputy Director of Department of Education chairs this
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