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January 2010: Kofi Annan visits the XO school in the Bonsaaso Millennium Village in Ghana.
Large-Scale Deployment
Ghana has signed an agreement with OLPC to purchase 10,000 XOs, scheduled for delivery in 2009. This is following an initial pilot of 100 laptops (more info below). The initiative to develop the capacity of Ghanaian youth is a primary concern to the President of Ghana. Ghana’s 2007 Budget Statement and Economic Policy of the Government of Ghana (Page 299, Paragraph 1310), indicates that Government will enhance the usage of computers in schools. The Ministry of Education, Science and Sports collaborating with Ministry of Communication has been tasked to oversee the implementation of this program.
The Baah-Wiredu Laptop per Child Foundation (named for the late finance minister who championed OLPC) is coordinating the deployment. The Foundation was given a mandate by outgoing President Kufuor to find funding for a million XOs in 2009. The Foundation and core team members are now preparing for the arrival of the machines.
First Phase Launch Schools
We have two pilot in Ghana, of about 40 laptops each. One in the capitol city of Accra, in a public school 4th grade classroom. This deployment has a server but no internet access. The other is in a rural village, Bonsaso, which by the way has no electricity (in the village, not just the school). For that deployment, individual solar panels were given to the students. At this writing, the rural deployment does not yet have a server or internet - we are waiting for a low-power server to be shipped.
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The town of Bonsaaso, one of the Millennium Villages.--SvenAERTS 02:07, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
- Aha, according to the video on olpc Ghana, the lab roll-out was in this village ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfVrTSq_iKc --SvenAERTS 23:46, 7 April 2014 (UTC)
- Evaluation: none of the 5 OLPC core principles were followed. The video is another clear manual on how to make a (olpc) project fail: (what follows is ironic)
- make a project too small,
- make sure there is no local capacity, and the support team should be preferably in another continent and make them be from another time zone so there is no coaching is possible when both are awake at the same time.
- of course don't look for local strategic partners to work with the teachers, parents, leaders, ... . In fact, don't take time to get to know the local realities. Do not get a local ICT university involved.
- do not put the useful ebooks on the XO's, e.g. all the school books for all grades, comic-books, books on how to make money, learn to make soap, why it is important to wash your hands after toilet or going to prepare food or eat, ...
- don't explain how a PV panel works, what it is for, nor how it interlinks with a battery. In a sunny country like Ghana, don't provide the kids with portable PV panels to charge their XO's and their parent's gsm's, ..
- Never explain how to open an XO nor repair it. If you do, make sure there are no spare parts, so any repair training given becomes completely useless.
- Leave linux training over to Windows trained people
- Make sure they understand they don't have to bear any responsibility, yet just sit back and lean in their chairs because other people from another continent will come and do everything for them, ... . Maybe you should tell them the story of the 7 little dwarfs who come out and do everything?
- Do not use twinning projects with a university in your developed country and do not involve the diaspora from the country in your country
- When you are in ICT, behave like a god. After all you create, so you can also have the pleasure of killing, collateral damage is too banale for you to consider, ... . You may change your name into Caesar, Olympus, Zeus or something.
- ... --SvenAERTS 00:40, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks for the verbal sabotage. Do you have anything positive to say? --Quozl 01:30, 8 April 2014 (UTC).
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December Ghana Planning Workshop, 2008
For the week of December 14, 2008 the Ghanaian core team visited OLPC headquarters in Cambridge, MA to plan for the deployment of 10,000 XO laptops.
Ms. Agatha Gaisie-Nketsiah and Mr. Maxwell Akornor presented on the Baah-Wiredu Laptop Foundation, named in honor of the late Minister of Finance & Economic Planning, the current state of education in Ghana and also experiences from the first phase launch.
- The BWL Foundation (Microsoft-Powerpoint Presentation)
- OLPC in Ghana (Microsoft-Powerpoint Presentation
- OLPC Ghana
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfVrTSq_iKc
OLPC employees who presented included:
- Richard Smith, Director of Embedded Engineering: Laptop Power
- Robert Fadel, Vice President of International Operations: Current Initiatives
- Ed McNeirney, Vice President of Software Development: Software
- Reuben Caron, Country Techincal Support Engineer: Country Technical Support
- John Watlington, Vice President of Hardware Advancement: Hardware
Smaller Independent Deployments
Here are some smaller independent deployments by other organizations, not part of the official OLPC larger scale government deployments.
- Accra (OLPCorps_Ashesi_University_Ghana.)
- Agogo (outside of Kumasi) (OLPCorps Ghana_University_of_Education_Winneba_Kumasi)
- Axim (WHH Children's Home) (Ghana Together, http://ghanatogether.org Donate XOs)
- Volta Region (Southeast corner) (OLPCorps_Dickinson_Ghana)
- Eastern Region (north of Accra) (OLPCorps_CUNY_Baruch_Ghana)
Reports/Papers
- The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Project and Its Applicability to Ghana Report
| Primary Language | ,|x|Language spoken::x}} |
| Number of Laptops | Number of manufactured laptops::1100 |
| Keyboard Layout | Keyboard::OLPC English Keyboard |
| Build | ,|x|Software release::x}} |
| Date(s) Arrived in Country | ,|x|Has received laptops on date::x}} |
| School Server | ,|x|School server status::x}} |
| Deployment Status | Deployment status::Stalled on government politics (corruption charges), despite the agreement. |