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fgrose
Posted: Jan 27, 2008 04:33 PM    Post Reply        (Msg. 1 of 2)

The One Laptop per Child education project has advanced to mass production of laptops in November 2007.  In a special Give 1 Get 1 program, over 150,000 laptops have been sold to donors in the USA and Canada for US$ 399 ($ 199 for a personal laptop, and $ 200 for a laptop to be given to a child in Afghanistan, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Haiti, Mongolia, or Rwanda).
 
The compact, but advanced, hardware and software is being used to build a new computing, networking, and learning environment to especially support children in the developing world.
 
With so many people interested in the project, new communities have formed to address a wide range of technical and social issues.  The project maintains a wiki at wiki.laptop.org where anyone may participate, learn about, or contribute to the project.
 
A Health Portal has been started on the wiki with teams and individuals collecting and preparing content for software, hardware (including telemedicine), and training activities.
 
The new user interface, Sugar, has a human interface guidelines document that will be of interest to the human factors community.
 
This is an ambitious project, but one that has captured a lot of interest and enthusiasm, and one with significant potential to influence the future.
 
(See this earlier discussion about the project on Ergoweb Forum.)

Frederick Grose, MPH, CIH

fgrose
Posted: Feb 7, 2008 02:28 PM    Post Reply        (Msg. 2 of 2)

The OLPC Health People have announced a conference call for this Sunday 10 February 2008 at 1 pm Eastern time.

Those interested are invited to request the call-in number and access code from Arjun Sarwal by email (arjun AT laptop dot org).

Agenda for conference call on 10th Feb 2008, 1pm EST

  1. Anna Breshtyn -- Reaching out to educators to donate material; publicity drive; mechanism for integrating content that we get
  2. Walter Bender -- One Laptop per Child, the project today and the road ahead.
  3. Josh Hehner -- Vision for the Health initiative and parallelism with OLPC's educational focus
  4. Carla Gomez Monroy -- Health and Learning; perspectives from the implementations in Uruguay, Peru, Mongolia
  5. Amit Gognaa -- Perspectives from Khairat pilot project site near Mumbai, India
  6. Drew Einhorn -- World VistA on the XO
  7. SJ Klein -- Content focussed on prevention and sanitation; organizing people and projects
  8. Jim Hopper -- Thoughts from Web-based "brief assessment and motivational enhancement intervention" project, which Jim conceived and is directing for another non-profit (that serves men with histories of childhood sexual abuse)
  9. Erica Frank -- Describing her team's work on the development of a database of large number of links and the work required to take it forward
  10. Roy Peterson -- Development of an Ultrasound imaging system around the XO at Philips
  11. Scott Swanson -- EKG and other hardware peripheral development efforts at IMSA
  12. Mika Matsuzaki / Arjun Sarwal -- Wrap up, sustainability of the initiative


Frederick Grose, MPH, CIH

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