A handful of idealistic Frenchies built a stronger implementation/contributors/fundraising volunteer community than possibly all other countries, but how? Supporting an actual island village in Madagascar with solar-powered inter-island Wifi? What on earth's behind this FranXOfrique FranXOphonie, that every other country might learn from s'il vous plait?
This coming Thursday watch a live interview to learn the answers from the OLPC guys (and quite a number of OLPC girls/women/kids, eureka) who made it happen over the past half-decade -- in Madagascar and far beyond: Thursday August 1st, 11AM NYC Time Tune in here to hear guest speakers (Wikipedia governance alum) Bastien Guerry and (XS/hardware hacker) Xavier Carcelle, if not others, as they tell this powerful story live: http://youtube.com/unleashkids Keep the learning real by reading their blog in advance @ http://olpc-france.org/blog (en Français!) and sending your live interview questions (in any language) for http://olpc-france.org to: contact [at] unleashkids [dot] org And until Thursday, our colorful preview poster is here, with special thanks to Laura de Reynal's Madagascar photography: http://twitter.com/unleashkids -- Unsung Heroes of OLPC, interviewed live @ http://unleashkids.org !
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