On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 6:37 PM, Bryan Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Tim Mercer wrote: >> Forgive me, I'm new to this, I've looked through the FAQs but can't find >> the answer I'm looking for. I'm trying to deliver an IT workshop to >> around 60 teenagers in Kisumu, Kenya in August. >> >> I understand from the website the following: >> >> * no orders for less than 10,000 laptops >> * Kenya is not in the first wave of deployments (green), Kenya is >> in the second wave (red)
That plan is entirely out of date. I don't know why the old country deployment promises are still on the Wiki. >> Can anyone tell me: >> >> * when does the second wave start? >> * What NGOs doing work in Kenya are signed up to OLPC? As far as I know, there are no deployment plans for Kenya. I would be delighted to be proven wrong, but I haven't seen any announcements, and there is no announced keyboard for Kenya. >> Thanks. >> >> Tim > > Here in Nepal we received 200 machines through the Give Many program. It > was a pretty arduous bureaucratic process to go through and the Give > Many program is in a constant state of flux. > > Steve Holton wrote: >> As I understood, deployments are targeted toward government-run >> educational institutions. Thus 10,000 units makes sense as a minimum. >> (There are, however, rumors of 'give many' programs where deployments >> of as few as 100 machines can be arranged.) That's what http://laptopfoundation.org/participate/givemany.shtml says. It also provides a contact e-mail address for the program. > Many, many pilots are happening outside of the Depts of Education but > all of them are targeted to government schools. Reliance Telecom is > leading many of the pilots in India, Pies Descalzos is leading a pilot > of 700 laptops in Colombia, and Carlos Slim of Mexico has bought 50,000 > XO's for I don't know what. > > Here in Nepal, the pilots are implemented by an NGO (OLE Nepal - my > employer) in partnership w/ Nepal's dept. of education. > > In general, NGO's can do pilots w/ XO's but it takes a lot of legwork to > get the machines because OLPC's apparatus isn't set up for small orders > > Bryan Berry > Kathmandu > OLE Nepal -- http://www.olenepal.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > Olpc-open mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-open > -- Edward Cherlin End Poverty at a Profit by teaching children business http://www.EarthTreasury.org/ "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."--Alan Kay _______________________________________________ Olpc-open mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-open
