User:GJavetski

About Me

My name is Gillian Javetski and I am an intern at OLPC's Cambridge office this summer. I am a senior at Tufts University, where I am double majoring in international relations and community health. I took this past semester off to work at the United Nations Development Programme's HIV/AIDS unit in Geneva. At OLPC, I will be conducting research on UN and international partnerships.

Work at OLPC

• Blog posts (both writing and editing)
  • Afghanistan blog posts, including one, two, three --> Go through and select photos for Afghanistan blog posts
  • Other blog posts, including XO 1.5HS, Indonesian laptop
• UNICEF/Afghanistan wiki page and research, including foreign aid data
  • Correspond with Mike Dawson, met with Matt and Salim
  • Afghanistan budget research for Matt; spoke with contacts at a variety of think tanks and USAID
  • Research on incorporating an NGO in Afghanistan
  • Work on Afghanistan grant process, do research, create google docs, beginning to add information, met with Barbara for information
  • UNICEF/Afghanistan memo
• WFP/Nepal wiki page: corresponded with Nepal team
• Haiti Partners/Haiti wiki page: met with Adam to discuss Haiti
• Working with/checking in on volunteers on IRC Chat
  • Worked on Class/Act Resources with Shirish
• Events: Conference call on education with tinygames (6/17), meeting on Realness Conference (6/17), call with Reverend Franck Boah (6/18), RIT Hackfest (7/8), MIT Media Lab (7/12), meeting with Salim (7/16), OLPC Conference (7/17)
• Twittering daily
  • Updating microblog wiki page
• XO 1.5 HS teardown and photos

Timeline/To Do List

• July 28-31st: wrote blog posts about Afghanistan and 1.5HS, put grant application and SF424 up, continue working on Nepal wiki page.
• August 2-August 6: Look at Matt's research request about incorporating an office in Afghanistan, email Nepal group for feedback and incorporate feedback, go through OLE newsletters, make wiki page on country statistics (number of primary school students, public private distinction, gender gap) from UNESCO, Haiti wiki page, Ethiopia wiki page
• August 9-13: post tear down instructions, work with Paul on RTC problems, Rwanda wiki page, write additional 2 blog posts on 1.5HS
• August 16-24: home for vacation
• August 24-September 4: working on and finalizing white papers, possibly writing a page on Paraguay