About Anything » one laptop per child http://www.alstevens.org The personal blog of Al Stevens. Focus is overrated. Mon, 07 Mar 2011 21:18:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 XO Laptaps in Nepal http://www.alstevens.org/2009/01/19/xo-laptaps-in-nepal/ http://www.alstevens.org/2009/01/19/xo-laptaps-in-nepal/#comments Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:51:39 +0000 Al Stevens http://www.alstevens.org/?p=260 Gaia Vince, in an article in Seed Magazine reports on  Open Learning Exchange Nepal, a non-profit organization headed by Rabi Karmacharya that develops curriculum-based content in the Nepali language to run on inter-connected XO laptops made by the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) consortium. At the start of the school year last April, the group began a test run of 200 computers, donated by the Danish IT Society, in two of Nepal’s rural schools. This April, the project is expanding to 15 more schools across five districts, distributing a total of 44,000 laptops.

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