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This work was initially started by the [http://somosazucar.org/ Peru Local Lab] to accomplish the [[Deployment_Team/Peru/Puno#The_problem|needs]] that Lab people faced during the work on [[Deployment_Team/Peru/Puno|Puno pilot program]].
 
This work was initially started by the [http://somosazucar.org/ Peru Local Lab] to accomplish the [[Deployment_Team/Peru/Puno#The_problem|needs]] that Lab people faced during the work on [[Deployment_Team/Peru/Puno|Puno pilot program]].
  
The major purpose are:
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The major goal of Sugar Network is providing sufficient functionality to share various types of information between:
  
* Connect students and teachers, from different Internet-less schools, using hight-level software that is an analog of existing in the Internet social services, like [[Platform_Team/Sugar_Network/Concept#Resources|Wiki, forums or files sharing]];
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* Students and teachers from different off-line schools;
* Connect students and teachers with educators, trainers and supporters that work especially for local deployment but are located far from schools and can't visit schools on regular basis;
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* Students, teachers and people who support this particular deployment but are located far from schools and can't visit schools on regular basis;
* Connect students and teachers (with deployment people's help) with the rest of Sugar community (that can reuse the same software being connected via the Internet);
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* Students, teachers, supporters and the rest of Sugar community.
* In case of having connectivity, Sugar Network should be still useful by providing close integration of its social instruments with the rest of Sugar Platform.
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* In case of having connectivity, Sugar Network should be still useful by providing close integration of its social instruments with the rest of Sugar Platform, supporting Sugar, and learning in general, specific aspects.
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The purposes of this sharing are:
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* Provide technical and educational support to student and teachers in off-line schools;
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* Support social activity of student and teachers in off-line schools;
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* Connect student and teachers from off-line schools with the rest of Sugar community for, e.g., getting a feedback from the field.
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The Sugar Network should useful for both kinds of environments, off-line and on-line.
  
 
== Further reading ==
 
== Further reading ==

Revision as of 14:16, 15 December 2011

Sugar Network version cycle: | 1.0 |

Summary

This work was initially started by the Peru Local Lab to accomplish the needs that Lab people faced during the work on Puno pilot program.

The major goal of Sugar Network is providing sufficient functionality to share various types of information between:

  • Students and teachers from different off-line schools;
  • Students, teachers and people who support this particular deployment but are located far from schools and can't visit schools on regular basis;
  • Students, teachers, supporters and the rest of Sugar community.

The purposes of this sharing are:

  • Provide technical and educational support to student and teachers in off-line schools;
  • Support social activity of student and teachers in off-line schools;
  • Connect student and teachers from off-line schools with the rest of Sugar community for, e.g., getting a feedback from the field.

The Sugar Network should useful for both kinds of environments, off-line and on-line.

Further reading

Getting involved

Platform Team/Sugar Network/Feedback