One Laptop Per Child Afghanistan

One Laptop Per Child Afghanistan This is the new Official Wiki page for "One Laptop Per Child Afghanistan" project. OLPC Afghanistan OLPC Afghanistan team consists of Members of Ministry of Education Afghanistan Members of Ministry of Communications and IT Afghanistan USAID's Afghan Small and Medium Enterprise Development (ASMED) Roshan PAIWASTOON Networking Services Ltd. More about OLPC Afghanistan Volunteers OLPC Afghanistan Team OLPC Af. Team inside the Office OLPC Af. team in Qargha For further information please visit OLPC Afghanistan Wiki, official OLPC Afghnistan website, Official OLPC Afghanistan Dari Weblog or contact implementation team under supervision of PAIWASTOON Networking Services Ltd.. Volunteer Team Usman Mansour Ansari Sohaib Obaidi Ebtihaj Read More about the OLPC Afghanistan volunteers here. OLPC Afghanistan Team Read about the OLPC Afghanistan Team here. You can join our FaceBook group for fresh and updated news as well. OLPC in Afghanistan The mission of this Not for Profit Organization is to create an environment for OLPC, take necessary steps to ensure every child in Afghanistan get the laptop and develop the Local Activities for OLPC laptops that could revolutionize how we educate our children. The goal is to provide every child in Afghanistan with new opportunities to explore, experiment, and express themselves in a collaborative way. Afghanistan is a very famous for being a multicultural country. Participation of the OLPC project in Afghanistan will not only revolutionize the way we teach children, the vision behind this "educational" project, but also scale up the eco-system of sharing between the diverse set of communities existing in the central Asian countries. The Ministry of Education, Ministry of Communications and IT, USAID Afghanistan Small and Medium Enterprise Development (ASMED), Roshan Telecom and PAIWASTOON Networking Services are working together to improve education and bring new opportunities for economic development through low cost computing and computer literacy for the Afghanistan's future workforce. First 11,500 localized XO laptops with Dari and Pashto content will be deployed to 285 schools in form of computer labs, with 21 computers in each school. These 11,000 laptops shall reach over 85,000 children across Afghanistan. 1st deployment (pilot) will take place in the following provinces: Baghlan (20 schools) Herat (25 schools) Ningarhar (25 schools) Kabul (188 schools) Balkh (25 schools) OLPC technical implementation team started working on 19th of November 2008. We are now in the process of finalizing localization of laptop into Dari and Pashto, preparing training materials for teacher trainings, do some power testing experiments and much more! First laptops shall be deployed during December time into Ningarhar province and after winter holidays we will continue with other provinces. For detailed info about OLPC Afghanistan, please visit official OLPC Afghanistan Website or OLPC Afghanistan Blog. You can also join the OLPC Afghanistan volunteer team. Implementation Plan Here is the list of schools in 5 provinces of Afghanistan, where the OLPC Laptops will be deployed. Kabul Baghlan Balkh Herat Nengarhar comment here. The Structure of Technical Operations The Diagram shows the structure of Technical operations of OLPC Afghanistan. Sections: The whole Technical operations can be divided into 5 sections. Deployment teams section This section's responsibility is deployment of OLPC laptops to schools with all related logistics and actions. Dispatch center section Dispatch center takes over the laptops from Ministry of Education, makes sure they are operational and uploads them with all activities (programs) specified. Technical trainers section Technical trainers are responsible for education of teachers and at the beginning of the project also for education of Technical operations staff. User service team section User service teams provides support for teachers and schools what OLPC laptops concern – troubleshooting, documentation creation, development of new activities (programs). This team will closely cooperate with Ministry of Education on development of new content and activities for OLPC already deployed where MoE will provide the Curricular specifications and content and User service team developers will create the programming part. Localization team section Localization team is responsible for translating the current activities into Dari and Pashto. This activity will take place at the very beginning of OPLC project. Job descriptions of each position: Following are concrete job descriptions of each position within Technical operations.