p.s. One anti-theft thing that I forgot to mention in my previous list
serve response was that we label and ENGRAVE all the laptops with big bold
numbers and codes in various locations on the laptops so anyone can tell
exactly who they belong to. ItÂ’s pretty obvious they are from a school or
organ
In Peru, after around 2 years of regular contacts with the people in
charge of the deployment of the laptops in the government, the
constitution of an hack-tivism group and a document approved by OLPC
(US), they have allowed on person to have access to the secret key
allowing for the signature of a
Hi,
The Saint Jabob school in Kigali where I am providing deployment support
is not currently allowing the students to take laptops home
because the antitheft capability is not implemented.
The laptops were donated by WCE in Stuttgart. The laptops are locked.
The software version installed (8
I plan to attend the OLPC conference in San Francisco in October. I will
be available there to anyone who wishes to discuss our Laptops to Lesotho
model in more detail.
You can see the Rules & Regulations, Contracts, and Fine Schedules written
in December 2010 for Nohana Primary School on our blo
We got around the need for antitheft measures with a community-based
approach. This may not work in all communities, but it has worked very
well for us.
BEFORE distributing any computers for student use, we held meetings with
all participants, including teachers, students, parents, and the
commun
