One Laptop Per Child AfghanistanThis is the Official SUGAR-LABS Wiki page for "One Laptop Per Child Afghanistan" project.
OLPC AfghanistanOLPC Afghanistan team consists of
For further information please visit OLPC Afghanistan Wiki, official OLPC Afghnistan website, Official OLPC Afghanistan Dari Weblog or contact implementation team under supervision of PAIWASTOON Networking Services Ltd..
Volunteer TeamRead More about the OLPC Afghanistan volunteers here.
OLPC Afghanistan TeamRead about the OLPC Afghanistan Team here. You can join our FaceBook group for fresh and updated news as well.
OLPC in AfghanistanThe mission of this Not for Profit Organization is to create an environment for OLPC, take necessary steps to ensure every child in Afghanistan get the laptop and develop the Local Activities for OLPC laptops that could revolutionize how we educate our children. The goal is to provide every child in Afghanistan with new opportunities to explore, experiment, and express themselves in a collaborative way. Afghanistan is a very famous for being a multicultural country. Participation of the OLPC project in Afghanistan will not only revolutionize the way we teach children, the vision behind this "educational" project, but also scale up the eco-system of sharing between the diverse set of communities existing in the central Asian countries. The Ministry of Education, Ministry of Communications and IT, USAID Afghanistan Small and Medium Enterprise Development (ASMED), Roshan Telecom and PAIWASTOON Networking Services are working together to improve education and bring new opportunities for economic development through low cost computing and computer literacy for the Afghanistan's future workforce. First 11,500 localized XO laptops with Dari and Pashto content will be deployed to 285 schools in form of computer labs, with 21 laptops in each school. These 11,500 laptops shall reach over 85,000 children across Afghanistan. 1st deployment (pilot) will take place in the following provinces:
Implementation PlanHere is the list of schools in 5 provinces of Afghanistan, where the OLPC Laptops will be deployed. comment here.
The Structure of Technical OperationsThe first diagram shows the structure of Technical operations of OLPC Afghanistan. The Second one is the chart of Laptop Update and Maintenance procedure and the job of each team member. The third diagram is showing an example of networking sites available for teachers in schools.
This section's responsibility is deployment of OLPC laptops to schools with all related logistics and actions.
Dispatch center takes over the laptops from Ministry of Education, makes sure they are operational and uploads them with all activities (programs) specified.
Technical trainers are responsible for education of teachers and at the beginning of the project also for education of Technical operations staff.
User service teams provides support for teachers and schools what OLPC laptops concern – troubleshooting, documentation creation, development of new activities (programs). This team will closely cooperate with Ministry of Education on development of new content and activities for OLPC already deployed where MoE will provide the Curricular specifications and content and User service team developers will create the programming part.
Localization team is responsible for translating the current activities into Dari and Pashto. This activity will take place at the very beginning of OPLC project.
Job descriptions of each positionFollowing are concrete job descriptions of each position within Technical operations.
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Deployment NewsFinally after 1 month OLPC-AF got 10 XO's for test lab for its office in PAIWASTOON from the Ministry of Education Afghanistan. These XO's are used for experiments and testings in OLPC-AF Office by its technical team, inorder to develop and test new activities and software for XO's. Also we got two Educational Trainers from MoE as well, for training master trainers, who may train teachers of projected pilot schools. In its first deployment plan OLPC-AF provides 900 XO's to every single kid in a school in grades 1-6 in Jalalabad city of Ningarhar province. The school name has still not been declared. Right now we have only 500 XO's in country. We would like to deploy XOs during last week of January. As we do not have sufficient amount of XO's currently available here we would like to deploy to all children in selected grades at first - we will make sure that all children in those grades receive XO's and once we receive remaining amount from OLPC we would deploy XO's to the rest. Localization of XO's into Afghan languages (Dari & Pashto) is almost in its final stages, Pashto translation is completed both in pootle online translation server as well as our Entrans translation server, Dari translation is completed offline and now is been uploading to the pootle server and the translation over Entrans is also going well. Beside the final touches to the translation/verification of strings our localization team is loading files into online translation software inorder to put them into the XO's and waiting for MoE, MoCIT & ACSA to approve the translations. Then that will be tested and uploaded to the XO machines before the deployment. Our software developer are developing a literacy game for Dari and Pashto languages together with Afghan satellite teachers. Our Technical Trainers and User Service Officers are almost finished with documents for support of teachers; e.g. Teacher & Student User Manuals, online libraries etc.
Lets Explore XOONE LAPTOP PER CHILD, That’s our name and our vision. We want to create education opportunities for the world poorest children. By providing each and everyone for the rapid, low cost, low power connected laptop. "XO" a computer unlike the any other, designed specifically to work in tough conditions and remote areas. It comes packed with software inductivities to help kids learn, explore, create and share. No matter what language they speak or where they live, the XO connects them to each other to the world and to a brighter future. We are non-profit organization, which makes these kids our mission, not our market. That’s why that, wherever the XO goes, there are five core principles, everyone agrees to:
So in the nut shell, that’s us. An organization that makes a small computer to serve a big cause. Bringing education to the children all over the world with ONE LAPTOP PER CHILD.
Why give a laptop to a child who may have no electricity or even running water? That’s a very good question. But, if you substitute the world a laptop with education, the answer becomes clear. You don’t stop education, until all other challenges are solved. You do them at the same time, because education is the foundation of the other solutions. That’s why we designed the XO to work in the places that needed it the most.
All these features and many many more add up to one incredible result. When the XO comes to a classroom or village, kids get engaged, inspired, they go to school more after and stay there longer. They draw pictures, play music, make movies, and write stories. They figure out, how to do new things and begin to teach each other and even the parents. With the XO, kids learn to solve their own challenges and one day, they might even help us solve ours.
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