OLPC Guinea Stages and Budget

1. Intro and Data-Retrieval Phase
   1. Budget for accompanying the government
      1. to get to grips what is going to happen,
      2. to get to grips what data has to be retrieved and to retrieve the bulk of the obvious data
      3. to identify who needs to be involved
      4. make a list of what books are used now in the curricula of every school-level, compare them with the list of ebooks that are available, identify blind spots, budget what it takes to develop the ebooks that would cover those blind spots
      5. analyse what ebooks to put in what languages
      6. determine a communication and PR strategy
   2. Budget to estimate the costs for bringing the government and key-stakeholders to see, live and meet their peers in e.g. OLPC Uruguay, Uruguay - Plan Ceibal
2. Planning Phase
   1. Define Budget for: Purchase, Infrastructure and Connectivity, Staff.
   2. Hire project manager and Core Team managers.
   3. Select Target community (schools, centers).
   4. Define XO specs.
3. Deployment Phase
   1. Hire staff for Core Team.
   2. Arrange training for Core Team with OLPC.
   3. Develop Laptop Distribution Plan.
   4. Design and collect data for Baseline Study.
   5. Prepare Infrastructure and Connectivity (at schools and community level).
   6. Organize and Perform Teacher Training.
   7. Laptop Distribution.
4. Post-Deployment Phase