Deployments/Nepal

Contact

• Name: Subir Pradhanang

• Email: subir@olenepal.org

• Name: Rabi Karmacharya

• Email: rabi@olenepal.org

Location

Six Districts in Nepal. Namely; Dadeldhura, Kapilvastu, Kavre, Lalitpur, Makwanpur and Mustang.

Language

Nepali (ne_NP)

Size

OLENepal has deployed nearly 2500 laptops to 26 schools in 6 districts

Number of Students: 1396

Number of Teacher: 177

Number of IT staff using Sugar: 40

Hardware

Approx 2500 OLPC XO-1

School Server Hardware:

• Intel® Atom™ 230 1.6GHz CPU

• 2 GB RAM

• Intel® 945GC +ICH7 chipset

• Support DDR2 553MHz SDRAM, SO-DIMM Memory

• GbE LAN

• Support Two SATA Devices

• 320 GB hard drive

• USB-Ethernet Adapter for 2nd Ethernet port

Technical Details

• Sugar version: 0.82.1

• Build: 77

• Firmware: Q2E33

• OS distribution: Fedora 9 (is called NEXO)

Activity Usage

• Terminal
• Epaath
• Speak
• Colors!
• TamTamJam
• TamTamEdit
• TamTamJam
• PustakalayaXO
• Typing Turtle
• Browse
• gcompris
• Write
• Paint
• Chat
• Scratch
• Record
• Read
• Etoys
• Memorize

Curriculum

Provide any notes about how Sugar is being used in the classroom.

History

Describe how and when the deployment got started, its growth and changes, etc. OLE Nepal launched a two-phase OLPC pilot project in April 2008 —the beginning of the academic year in Nepal. The deployment was done in two phases; first pilot was carried out in two rural test schools in Lalitpur district and in the second phase of the project (April 2009 to March 2010), the pilot was expanded to 26 schools in six districts (Dadeldhura, Kapilvastu, Kavre, Lalitpur, Makwanpur and Mustang). After the completion of the pilot, it is expected that the OLPC project will expand across the entire country in a phase-wise manner.

Links

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLE_Nepal

Comments and Discussion

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