[Grassroots-l] OLPC efforts in Jamaica?

[Sameer Verma]

Christoph Derndorfer wrote:
> Hello Sameer,
>
> I just had a look around through wiki.laptop.org and did a quick
> search via Google, without any results so I'm assuming that there's
> currently no OLPC action going on in Jamaica!
>

Hmm...then maybe we should start one? I was at UWI last year where one
of the doctoral students presented on a pilot in a remote village in the
mountains north of Kingston. They were experimenting with donated
desktops and a satellite uplink, I think. Nothing close to what OLPC
will bring to the picture. I'll find out more and post here.

I did find out about IADB + OLPC agreement
(http://www.iadb.org/NEWS/articledetail.cfm?artid=3407&language=En) but
there are two foreseeable problems:
1) The focus in all the documentation seems to be on Latin America, esp.
Brazil.
2) No mention of the English-speaking Caribbean.

Anyone know how to get a pilot going or qualify for one?

cheers,
Sameer

-- 
Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Information Systems
San Francisco State University
San Francisco CA 94132 USA
http://verma.sfsu.edu/
http://opensource.sfsu.edu/


> Regards,
> Christoph Derndorfer (OLPC Austria)
>
> Sameer Verma schrieb:
>> Hi,
>> Does anyone on this list know of the efforts to work with the Caribbean
>> (esp. Jamaica) for pilot or full implementations? I had a long
>> conversation with a friend and colleague who works at University of the
>> West Indies, Mona, Jamaica (http://www.mona.uwi.edu/) and we are trying
>> to dig up as much info as possible.
>>
>> Any pointers would be great.
>>
>> cheers,
>> Sameer
>>
>>