[OLPC-Jamaica] OLPC'ers from 6 other deployments worldwide to visit OLPC-Jamaica

[PERUE,Craig A]

Dear OLPC'ers:

I have very good news. Just in time for the one year celebration of the launch of our XO deployments at August Town Primary and Providence Methodist Basic School, six members of the global OLPC community will be visiting us. They will be taking lots of pictures, doing interviews, workshop sessions, meeting the parents, teachers and students - all during the week of January 29 to February 5. One of the goals while they are here is to collect lots of content for a coffee table book full of National Geographic quality pictures and amazing stories that will be published later in the year along with those of five other small OLPC deployments worldwide.

The coffee table book is an initiative to publicize to a worldwide audience the great OLPC work being done in Jamaica, Madagascar (Nosy Komba), Philippines, Kenya, Haiti, and Vietnam. The team visiting Jamaica includes:
- documentary film maker, Bill Stelzer, who works with the OLPC deployments in the US Virgin Islands
- OLPC's community support manager since 2007, Adam Holt, who splits his time between Boston and Haiti
- executive director of Ntugi Group, Mark Battley, who support OLPC implementations in Northern Kenya
- Quentin Peries Joly and Laura de Reynal, University students from OLPC France who have done extensive work with the OLPC project in Nosy Komba, Madagascar
- Nancie Severs, who envisioned and started the first OLPC deployment in a floating village, Vietnam.

With the wide range of experience and skills these OLPCers have, we expect to have a wonderful week full of learning and sharing. In true OLPC style, Bill, Adam, Mark, Quentin and Laura, would like to stay in the homes of members of OLPC Jamaica. We want to share with them our challenges and successes and use the opportunity to take a huge leap forward for our two schools. Please write back to the list (or to me personally - craig.perue at uwimona.edu.jm) saying how many persons you can accommodate. Everyone arrives on Sunday, January 29, and leaves on Sunday, February 5.

Best wishes,
Craig.

Craig Perue
Senior Consultant
Center of Excellence, Mona School of Business
The University of the West Indies, Mona
Kingston 7, Jamaica
Tel.: 876-509-0572
Email: craig.perue at uwimona.edu.jm
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