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https://mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1#inbox/12999093b9b9d1d8 Re. Item 3. OLPC Bahamas You request only 2 laptops? Think that reflects how costly it is to bring computers to poor students. I know a primary school in Accra with about a 1000 students. It is divided into 5 schools. Kanda Primary # 5 is one of these serving this working class district of the city. It was selected for an XO trial 2 years ago. The wireless server went down in the fall 0f '09. I found a lunux guy to come with me to see about this. We didn't know that it had been taken some place to be worked on. Now I've returned to California and neither my Linux engineer friend (who I think works mostly on bank problems) nor school officials have returned my email. Never the less this years 3rd grade teacher and lasts year's do not have email..I'm sure because money. They do remain enthusiastic about their olpc trial. Your Bahama students have D averages. About half of Ghana children do not attend primary school because they have to "help support their families". There are stories in the press of the police apprehending 18 wheelers full of children being taken to work on plantations sometimes to other countries. One hears many similar stories. I think that you are spot on trying to bring XOs to your students. The idea of students LEARNING TO SOLVE PROBLEMS through on line collaboration is part of the solution of getting out of this economic mess. But it will cost. Get 200 rotating XOs for one fifth of Kanda students US $32000 Hypothetical factory price in China or Tiawan? plus shipping. 5 sugarized desk tops per class room, 6 grades, #1-#5 kanda primaries $18000 1000 soas pin drives, $10000. These are needed to allow students to "own" their own share in the problems that they help solve. Comes out to about US $60000. This does not include to cost of a volunteer tech support persons. But in Ghana the number of primary school students plus the children who ought to be in school probably pushes a million. we have to start some place. good luck george pope - Show quoted text - _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
