Hi Sameer and all, Unfortunately, in Tunisia, Egypt and also here in Morocco, the Ministry of education choosed to partner with Intel and Microsoft instead. But I still see hope for OLPC in the region for 2 reasons: 1- The Ministry's plan are to introduce ICT to high schools students, which exclude 6-12 old children which are the target of OLPC with Sugar. 2- They can't introduce computers to all schools specially in remote area who lake infrastructure, and in places where there is not even schools!
For now, I think it is better if the student would get used to Sugar and join our Arabic translation efforts here: http://pootle.sugarlabs.org/ar/ and also join the Arab/Palestinian xo community, as they are the first country in the Arab world to have xo, so their success would be also a success of olpc and would make it easier to introduce it to other countries in the region, he can try to help them here: http://olpcmideast.ning.com PS: Tunisian Ministry of education website http://www.education.gov.tn cheers, Le 28/10/2010 05:49, Sameer Verma a écrit : > On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Edward Cherlin<[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 15:48, Sameer Verma<[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Anything happening in Tunisia? One of my students (who is from >>> Tunisia) wants to know. >>> >> A Google search shows that the Ministry of Education expressed >> interest in 2007, at the time of the World Summit on the Information >> Society in Tunisia, and nothing since. >> >> So the question is whether your student has the skills and temperament >> to start OLPC Tunisia. What do Tunisians think about it? What NGOs are >> active in Tunisia? Where is Tunisia now on ICT, education, >> development, civil society, whatever is relevant? >> >> But i have to ask, why couldn't your student find the answer to the >> original question? I know you teach research skills. Is there some >> disconnect? >> >> >>> cheers, >>> Sameer >>> -- >>> > Ed, > We found all the things you mentioned through web searches. I am > looking for specific OLPC and olpc efforts, if any. > > cheers, > Sameer > _______________________________________________ > Grassroots mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots > > > -- Ahmed Mansour http://olpc-maroc.blogspot.com http://twitter.com/OLPCMorocco ____________________________________________________________ TRY FREE IM TOOLPACK at http://www.imtoolpack.com/default.aspx?rc=if5 Capture screenshots, upload images, edit and send them to your friends through IMs, post on Twitter®, Facebook®, MySpaceT, LinkedIn® - FAST! _______________________________________________ Olpc-open mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-open
