On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 10:53 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I just wanted to introduce myself, I'm an education researcher in the > private sector and I've been meaning to get involved with this project for > some time. > > I am also looking for some data that I thought members of this list might be > able to help me with. Specifically, I'm looking for data more recent that > 2005 that can provide me with some aggregate measures by country related to > education technology. Things like number of computers per student, > percentage of computers with internet access etc. I've scanned all the > usual web territory but thought there might be some data sources that you > might be able to share with me.
What have you found so far? Would you be willing to add it to our Wiki? The usual Web territory presumably includes UN and prominent educational technology researchers such as Saul Rockman. "The Partnership for Measuring ICT for Development http://measuring-ict.unctad.org/ involves 11 organizations -- Eurostat, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the United Nations ICT Task Force, the five United Nations Regional Commissions and the World Bank." Here is one result. "There are 2 142 primary and 363 secondary schools in Rwanda, where 29 000 teachers teach approximately 1 500 000 pupils giving an average student : teacher ratio of 1:52. Very few schools have electricity. Apart from one private school in Kigali that has a computer lab of approx twenty machines, there is hardly any deployment of computers in Rwandan schools. The vast majority of Rwanda schoolchildren have not been exposed to computer technology in any way and no schools use computers for teaching. No public schools in Rwanda have access to the Internet and there are no trained computer teachers who could be deployed to teach basic computers in the schools. There are, however, plans to use World Bank funding to establish one secondary school in each prefecture as an ICT centre with about six computers." At one time Rwanda thought it could get financing for 1.5 million XO laptops, and publicly announced its intention to do so, but nothing has come of it so far. Something like 10,000 XOs donated in the GiveOneGetOne program are intended for Rwanda. I don't know what preparations are being made to receive them. Given the lack of electricity and other possible blocking factors, a good deal of other preparation is needed. Earth Treasury is recruiting partners for much of this. We are putting research data links on http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Academic_Papers http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/EducationTeam/Education_Bibliographies Less formal accounts go in http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Experience > Thanks for any help, > > Derek > > > ============================================== > "My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. > My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane. " > > -Tom Waits > > ____________________________________________________________ > Click to lower your debt and consolidate your monthly expenses. > > _______________________________________________ > 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
