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Hello Sameer and all,<br>
<br>
Thanks for this message, and your are welcome to help any way you want
Tilila.<br>
I think I need to give you an update about the current status of OLPC
in Morocco, it may be useful too for the upcoming OLPCSF community
summit:<br>
<br>
- The OLPC EU foundation project to make a large deployement in the
south of Morocco (in Ouarzazate region)<br>
is currently stalled as they are still looking for funds and I didn't
hear from them for sometime. <br>
- In the mean time I'm trying to focus on Sugar and continue the
localisation into Arabic and creating educational content<br>
that would be distributed in LiveCD or on USB sticks (<a
href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick</a>)
to introduce it to teachers who already have computer in their schools
to know about their needs/suggestions to be better prepared for a
distribution of laptops later.<br>
- There is a new deployment in Palestine (<a
href="http://laptop.org/en/children/countries/mideast.shtml">http://laptop.org/en/children/countries/mideast.shtml</a>)
and it is the first in the Arab world, so we try to closely follow and
learn from them as any progress they make would be useful to the other
country in the region due to shared language and culture. here the
official forum where you can find teachers and people involved with the
project (<a href="http://olpcmideast.ning.com">http://olpcmideast.ning.com</a>).<br>
<br>
There is still a lot to do and many area where we need help (both
technical and non technical), I think it would be a good start to
contact Tilila's association to get in touch with teachers and explain
them the project and get their opinion. <br>
<br>
Cheers, <br>
Ahmed<br>
<br>
<br>
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<pre wrap="">Hello Carolyn, Samy and Ahmed,
Let me introduce Tilila El Moujahid, a student at SFSU. She is from
Morocco and is very interested in OLPC activities in Morocco. She went
to Al Akhawayn in Ifran. She has an association there that does a lot
of edu related work in remote areas.
This is what I have by way of information.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouarzazate">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouarzazate</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Souss-Massa-Dra%C3%A2">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Souss-Massa-Dra%C3%A2</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://openensa.org/programme.html">http://openensa.org/programme.html</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://olpc-maroc.blogspot.com/">http://olpc-maroc.blogspot.com/</a>
Any pointers would be great.
cheers,
Sameer
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Ahmed Mansour
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://olpc-maroc.blogspot.com">http://olpc-maroc.blogspot.com</a>
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