OLPC Laos

FAQ from Teachers in Lao PDR

• Will this laptop be available in Laos?
• How will the teachers be trained?
• Which age of children is the laptop for? (5-10,10-15,15-graduade)?
• My sallary is 20$ in one month and I have 4 children. How can I pay 100$ per kid?
• Does it also work with 220V Socket without cranking?
• Does the teachers get the PC before the children get one?
• Is this project only for rich countries like Thailand and China?
• Is there a phone hotline where I can get more infos about this project?

Other questions

• Is there a contact to the Lao PDR government?
• Who will translate things to Lao language - there is no big open source community?
• The Lao PDR government does not have much money. To sell wood from primary forests maybe is the only possibility to finance this project. Are there alternatives?
• To build the education infrastruction for OLPC may take a long time - when does this task starts? Isn't that more time critical then the hardware?

Schedule

Offer

• olpc contacts the Lao PDR government and gives details about the availability

Finance

• Hardwarecost
• Supportcost
• Credit

Government

• Protect cultural identit
• Laws
• Decision

Infrastructur

• Hardware repair
• Software repair
• Network, Servers, Power supply
• Train the trainers

Manufactor

• Keyboard Layout
• Contract

Order

• Medial Event

Introduction

• Printed manuals for children, teachers and techicans in Lao language
• Localized introducion (Multimedia)

Deliver

• What Age first
• Where first