[Grassroots-l] OLPC efforts in Jamaica?

[Soundring]

I too would like to know how to start a pilot program as well.  In 
Australia.

Zadi

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sameer Verma" <sverma at sfsu.edu>
To: "Christoph Derndorfer" <e0425826 at student.tuwien.ac.at>
Cc: <grassroots at lists.laptop.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 1:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Grassroots-l] OLPC efforts in Jamaica?


> 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
>>>
>>>
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