OLPC Haiti
| Country Information | |
| ISO Country Code | HT |
| Wikipedia Article | Wikipedia Link |
| Government Support | Sponsored Trials |
| Deployment | Demonstration (under 50 machines) |
| Languages | |
| Keyboard Layout | US and Kreyòl/French Layouts |
| Written | Kreyòl/Haitian Creole(ht) |
| Spoken | Kreyòl/Haitian Creole(ht) |
| Secondary Written | French (fr) |
| Secondary Spoken | French (fr) |
The vast majority of XOs in Haiti originate from a 2008 pilot program co-financed by the Give One Get One program and the Inter-American Development Bank.<ref>"JawadHaiti Earthquake 2010 (Part One)". Archived from the original. Template:Citation error. http://saigonolpc.wordpress.com/tag/earthquake/.</ref> Since the the 2010 Haiti Earthquake, dozens of smaller pilots and grassroots efforts have continued the implementation of XOs in Haiti. The OLPC map currently lists over 30 deployments in six of the ten geographical departments of Haiti. Major challenges in the deployment of XOs in Haiti include lack of widely available internet and electricity, school damage due to earthquakes, and localization of software and course material to Haitian Creole.
| Primary Language | ,|x|Language spoken::x}} |
| Number of Laptops | Number of manufactured laptops::13700 |
| Keyboard Layout | Keyboard::OLPC French 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::Target of 13.7K XOs, release 8.1.0 or later.
Actual amount deployed unknown.]] |
Deployments and Trials
| Sponsor | Dates | Location | Laptops | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inter-American Development Bank | 2008 | InterAmerican Development Bank (IDB) is planning a wide trial of 13,200 laptops. IDB is contributing $3,000,000, OLPC is contributing $2,000,000 (presumably in laptops from G1G1), and SES Global is donating bandwidth. | ||
| Waveplace | February 20, 2008 | Port-au-Prince | 700 |
See videos and field notes. Laptops used used US keyboards from G1G1 program. |
| Waveplace | June 2009 | Petite Rivière Des Nippes | 23 | |
| Waveplace | Spring 2010 | Île de la Gonâve, Archaie, Léogâne, Petite-Rivière-de-Nippes | 170 |
24 schools |
| Port-au-Prince | At College Mixte de l'Experience, young school north of Port-au-Prince's airport experimenting with XOs. | |||
| Haitian-American Caucus | Croix-des-Bouquets | At the Ecole Shalom. | ||
| Child in Hand | March 2012 | Port-au-Prince, Grand-Goave | Child in Hand sponsored deployments at Mission of Hope Intl. in Grand-Goave (map) and the ORAEDH orphanage in PAP (map). |
Related Pages
- Education in Haiti: OLPC Haiti/Background
- Donating used laptops to Haiti: OLPC_for_Haiti
- Haitian Creole
- Haitian Creole Translation for Education
Resources
- OLPC Haiti News: http://www.olpcnews.com/countries/haiti/
- Video from Haitian government: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xaaayr_le-projet-xo-olpc-haiti_tech
- Feedback from the Haitian XO Deployment, a presentation from Bastien Guerry & Wanda Eugene, members of the OLPC Learning Team who spent the summer in Haiti.
