OLPC Madagascar

Welcome to the pages by and for the OLPC Community on Madagascar

2009 Distribution Ceremony

• There are three deployments in Madagascar:

students of Antintorona school (Nosy Komba) with their XOs

Meanwhile somewhere at OLPC Madagascar. And how's your summer? http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xftdx1_clip-nosy-komba_tech?start=264

1. One in Nosy Komba Nosy_Komba, where OLPC France and a french association of students "G du Coeur" started a deployment in july 2009. Now there are 160 XOs and a XS there and a new team will be sent there in summer 2011 to go further on with the project.
2. Another deployment takes place in Ambatoharanana [[1]]. It was led by OLPC Corps Africa through OLPC Ampitso (a team from two DC-area schools)[2]
3. A first deployment of 15 XOs laptops took place in the village serving five schools in Maroantsetra Madagascar/Maroantsetra, Madagascar. Others have started additional pilots in the region.

OLPC Summer School Madagascar

Every summer - june and july - a sort of summer school is organized where the team resides there for 4 to 6 weeks.

1. We flash the XO's
2. 1 XO class per week: kids can do the program they want to do. We're just coaching them. E.g. make a map of Madagascar, make a video about the summerschool-kids.
3. The kids keep the XO's, except the charger stays at school. Electricity comes to the village from a micro hydro, PV and diesel and that's not enough to charge all the kids'laptops.

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Number of Laptops	Number of manufactured laptops::295
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Deployment Status	Deployment status::three deployments ongoing.