OLPC Oceania/Content

Content

This page lists the evolving top-level strategy for content. There will also be local interpretations and issues; see the country pages in this category for detail.

Academic linkages/collaboration

• High level consultations with universities (USP, DWU, UQ, QUT, etc) to set up a research and development function for OLPC Oceania. Some dialogue has been established with the following institutions:
  • UQ Marine Science Dept
  • Queensland University of Technology
  • USP has lots of connections:
    • USP is creating an ICT Centre, funded from JICA
    • JICA-USP research defining principles for multimedia and e-learning in the Pacific Islands (http://www.usp.ac.fj/jica/ict_research/educational_multimedia/educational_multimedia_intro.html)
    • The PRIDE project (http://www.usp.ac.fj/pride)
    • OLPC TWG set up (contact: Dr Robert Whelan)
    • Collaboration between USP and NZ Computer Club (Contact: Mike Usmar)

Localisation

• Establish Pootle projects for the main languages.
  • In PNG, Solomons and Vanuatu this will be the local pidgin
  • Specific languages associated with each trial site such as Marovo in the Solomons
  • Identify communities and champions/volunteers in each country who will take up the translation
  • Dialogue with SIL (http://www.sil.org)
  • Involve NGO content providers (through national steering group)
  • Translate the text-to-speech synthesiser. Use communities to do this – for instance Mick Saunders’ students in Belleville, Ontario are continuing to work on Solomon Pidgin and Marovo

Building capacity and communities for content development

• WikiEducator is a key to allow some early progress on creating local content.
  • Link the current Learning4Content (http://wikieducator.org/Learning4Content) workshops in the Pacific Islands to OLPC, inviting people involved in the OLPC trials and content owners to the workshops
  • Work with Curriculum departments to help them appreciate that they can easily convert curriculum materials to PDF and IMS content packages for the XO
  • As above, but with NGOs and projects that might wish to create content for the XO
  • Use the power of the WE to build communities to develop content and localisation