Pilot Projects
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At the moment there are 7 countries who will introduce olpc in big numbers. Parallel there should be small pilot projects. The hardware is cheap it shouldn't be a problem to offer a small number of free hardware to all countries.
In every country, language, culture, climate, age, political system, ... are different pitfalls for this project. (Perhaps these are more of niches - special needs that find some equivalence in other places - that will need some customization of any or all of hardware, software and services. - Raffy, May 24, 2006)
Diversity Matrix
- Language
- Culture
- Climate (rain, dust)
- Environment (primary forest, desert, destroyed nature,..)
- Age (6-18)
- Political system
- Village size
- Availability of electrical Power
- Transport System
- Internet access
- Distance to the next internet access point
- Teachers knowledge
- Alphabetization
- Level of support
- Tribe language
- Religion
- Distance to road
- Economy (agicultural, tourism, industry,...)
- Size of school
Where to do this pilot projects
- Define the matrix
- Choose schools/classes at random
Evaluation of this projects
- Benefit
- Alternative usage
- Hardware problemes
- Software problemes
- Special ideas
- Needs