Belgium
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Belgium
| Country Information | |
| ISO Country Code | BE |
| Wikipedia Article | Wikipedia Link |
| Government Support | Low and not OLPC Priority |
| Deployment | Demonstration (under 50 machines) |
| Languages | |
| Keyboard Layout | AZERTY, but several Layouts with www.OlpcEU.org Brussels Office |
| Written | Flemish/Vlaams (Vl), French/Français (F), German/Deutsch (D) |
| Spoken | Flemish/Vlaams (Vl), French/Français (F), German/Deutsch (D) |
| Secondary Written | Flemish/Vlaams (Vl), French/Français (F), German/Deutsch (D) |
| Secondary Spoken | French (Fr) |
... and thanks for visiting the "OLPC" related Wiki-Pages, for the One Laptopschool Per Child Education project for our country. This website is a collaborative website, so create a login and start collaborating, editing and adding the pages. This tool is made available by the One Laptop Per Child not for profit. OLPC is
- an Open Community-project, similar to the Wikipedia, wikibooks, etc.,
- an Open Source-project, like Linux, OpenOffice, etc.,
- an Open Hardware-project, like Arduino, the Open Source Ecology, building farm/community equipment, OpenCoresand many more Open-Hardware projects.
OLPC is working along Agenda 21 and Millennium Development Goal nr.2: Bringing Universal Primary Education.
- 2' video - OLPC Intro part 1
- 2' video - OLPC Intro part 2
- 7' video: Impact on teachers, parents, kids, society.
The aim of this educational project, is on one hand to bring Universal Primary Education by 2015 as - anno year 2000 initiated - United Nations Millennium Development Goal nr.2. On the other hand, OLPC's mission is to manage the open-community -, open-hardware - and open-software -project, to bring forward the best possible laptop combination for education: the XO-XServer combination. For this and above approach, - and also a lot of lobbying by the right persons on the right places and time - the United Nations is a Partner in this Open-Community - project! It is the largest educational project undertaken by Humanity ever, and deemed by many as one of the most inspiring projects out there. 2008, saw the first countries with a 100% roll out to all of their kids aged 5 till 15: Peru, Uruguay. By now, several Island States and Rwanda have a 100% deployment too; several more countries and regions have olpc laboratories and test deployments, and several school networks in the USA and Australia are following at fast pace too.
Every XO can load over 1000 eBooks on its memory and has a choice of +86.000 eBooks available, as well as many (educational) games, all education disciplines covered, etc. etc.. things are moving fast indeed.
Although OLPC has not opened any legal OLPC Belgium entity in Belgium, Belgium does host the European Headquarters of OLPC in the magnificent surroundings at the befriended SWIFT company near Brussels.
Belgium is a very multi-cultural society with a very diverse diaspora. We hope that this diaspora will work their way to these pages and that society in Belgium will benefit from these citizens with one leg in Belgium and another still in their countries of origin to develop leadership for OLPC, Agenda 21, the MDG's and accelerate bringing the level that our planet can be a nice place for all humans to new and inspiring heights for generations to come.
Please feel free to create sub-categories or list or start collaborating, teaming up and expanding our and your projects, existing and new ones in one of these sub-categories:
- BRUSSELS HARBOR GROUP ORDER LIST CANDIDATE BUYERS OF AN XO LAPTOP
- OLPC Europe
- OLPC Belgium
- Belgium
- FAQ OLPC-Belgium
- Who's Who Belgium
- Who's Who OLPC-Belgium
- OLPC-Belgium Meetings
- OLPC-Belgium Discussions
- OLPC-Openings in Europe
- OLPC-Openings outside Europe
- OLPC Competing projects in Belgium
- What every government should ask itself when considering an ebook deployment
