OLPCorps DKTH ETHIO PROPOSAL

Dalarna University & The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)_Ethiopia

Abstract

We propose that one hundred XO laptops be deployed to the southern rural part of Ethiopia, Hamle 19 primary school, Asella city, Arsi zone, Oromia state for children of age 6-12. Our team contents two members. The first one, Tesfa Dagmawi Sebsibie, who is currently an international masters student at Dalarna University (Sweden) where as the second member of the team, Tesfaye Demerew Ketsela, who is also an international masters student on Network Services and Systems program, School of Electrical Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden. For more information about the team Click (Profile of Team Members.Therefore, working towards our OLPCorps project proposal Our professional background and practical experience enables us to support the project technically as well as managerially. furthermore as both of our team member can speak fluently the language(Oromic & Amharic) of the community where we will be working, there is no language barrier in communicating with children and the community as a whole

Detail description of Project proposal

General Overview

Deployment Country and Target School

Hamle 19 primary school, Asella city, Arsi zone, Oromia state, Ethiopia

Communication

Both of our team member can speak the language of the community where we will be working. So,there is no problem with this regards

Deployment, dealing with children and their schedule

There are 120 grade four students at the school where there will be almost enough laptop to saturate the targated class.
Secured store for laptops, server, accessories and other materials belongs to OLPCORPs team related to the project will be provided by Oromia Development Association(ODA) at main office (Addis Ababa) and at branch office( Arsi zone, Asella City). Furthermore, Our local partner, ODA, who has a close contact and working with the school, community as well as stackholders such as province education offices, teachers, and community representatives. ODA agreed and confirmed on the letter of support to rearrange the available classrooms, desks, benches, office furniture’s and other facilities and/or provide additional if needed to be used for the intended purpose as well as to organize children to return back from summer break for the tutor according to the schedule

Project Idea

In order to prevent poverty and hunger so as to support the current learning-teaching process through quality education using the current technology we have the following project idea.
(1) producing an interactive teaching material and install on the laptops The Most important benefits of the laptop here is to deepen the interaction and make quality education critical for human and social development and prevent the current an instructive teaching and learning methodology. Here each team share the softcopy of reference materials, textbooks, handout etc this also help them to learn by themselves
(2) Working in a group: We will work with children by allowing peer collaboration, which grant the opportunity to teach and learn from their peers.In this project idea students are given projects to compile, analyse information and finally each group will present to the project infront of his classmates We need to engage them in those learning methodologies that are enhanced by connected laptops:
(3) Inovation and Creativity: under this project idea students are promoted to generate and develop idea that drive them for inovation We will motivate and assist students to involve their local community using interviewing the community, and/or researching their family. We will also support students, teachers, parents, and concerned experts to join and create new learning networks to improve educational thinking and practices. When children bring the laptops home with them, many parents began adult education courses at night using the laptops. Many families chose to move into communities with laptop programs. Children develop the skills to do normal maintenance on their laptops.

Our local partners and Future Sustainability of the Project

(1) Oromia Development association (ODA) Arsi branch coordinates education offices, teachers, and community representatives. Even if children’s will be on summer break during our arrival, they will create environment with the community representatives, schools and children that help us to provide a tutor. Furthermore they are ready to fully support the OLPCORPs project financially. Click here to see letter of support from ODA coming soon)
(2) In order to ensure continuos technical support we are partnering with Adama University, Asella Compus with a strong coordination and financial support given by Arsi Farmers cooperative Union(AFCU). Click here to see the letter of support from AFCU coming soon
(3) Ethiopia Engineering Capacity Building :-we will share experiance from the previous deployment project implemented by Ethiopia Engineering Capacity Building and we will try to integrate the previous deployment project with our projct so that our project will be the part of the previous project after august for future sustainability of the project.

Monitoring and Evaluation

We will train students and selected teachers parallelly, and enabling teachers to fully take care of the responsibility of teaching. Once we have obtained the practical experiance from the previous deployment implemented by Ethiopian engineering capacity building, we will design the appropriate monitoring and evaluation method and provide to oromia capacity building Arsi branch which is under Oromia Development association. Oromia Development association and Farmers cooperative Union as our local partners, will take care of the monitoring capable of maintaining the deployment after we leave, which will provide back-up, further training and supervision and which will liaise with the local community

Project's financial needs and brief budget for the project

S/No	Activities	Unit Cost	Total Cost	Remark
1	Transport:Flight 1: Stockholm, Sweden (STO) to Kigali, Rwanda on 06-Jun ' 09 (KGL) Flight 2: Kigali, Rwanda (KGL) to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (ADD) on 18-Jun 09 Flight 3: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (ADD) to Stockholm, Sweden (STO) on 11-sep ' 09	$2,382.00	$4,764.00	+2% possible increament
2	Transport of 100 Laptops, servers and other accesseris form Addis Ababa to Arsi-Asella		$200.00
3	Accommodation in Ethiopia for 10 weeks	$1400.00	$2800.00	Including housing, transportation, food etc
4	Handout for children and teachers	$6.00	$720.00
5	Printer	$200.00	$200.00
6	Accessory material for the server such as cables, server room key	$100.00	$100.00
7	Addational supplementary materials such as map and ebooks	$200.00	$200.00
8	Safety reserve for unexpected events	$800.00	$800.00
	Total		9784.00