[Olpc-open] OLPC Afghanistan Briefing Note

[Mike Dawson]

Dear All,

Here in Afghanistan we have worked over the last couple months to put
together a thorough briefing note on the state of education here; the
barriers to effective education as they are understood through
conventional research and how OLPC can rapidly change the input
variables to effective education.

I'm quite sure that a lot of the challenges mentioned in the Briefing
Note in Afghanistan are applicable to quite a few other countries.

Just to be clear here in Afghanistan we and I'm sure no one else is
arguing against the need to improve conventional educational systems
like school buildings, teacher training, etc.  But unfortunately
Afghanistan doesn't have the luxury of waiting as long as this might
take.

http://www.paiwastoon.af/olpcbn/

Any comments/ discussions more than welcome.  Please feel free to
reference / quote the document / use it to construct new arguments;
just we ask for attribution.  If anyone is interested in helping out
here in any way (advocacy, software, etc) please do email info at olpc.af
.

Regards,

-Mike