User talk:Sathj1

In 2007 the Philippine government's Department of Communications DOC was engaged in a nation wide project called the National Broadband Network (NBN). Work on th eproject was suspended due to some political issues. The President Gloria Arroyo (GMA) has mandated that the Philippines will engage in a nation-wide ICT program to provide the access for government agencies to IP based services.

Wouldn't it be great if the proposed NBN program mandated that a rural education component must be included and that ICT access as well as deployment of XO laptops was the deliverable for that component?

In other words, this proposed nation wide broadband ICT build would not only give government agencies in all parts of the Philippines access to IP based services, but would importantly require providing OLPC devices (XO laptops) to school districts in the provinces where education is so very important in order to break the level of rural poverty.

I would be interested in knowing if OLPC has a mechanism to initiate this sort of program?  My interest, having worked on a large scale digital network build in te philippines in 1998 (the NDTN project) would be to assist with the project planning and project management requirements on a voluntary basis.