[OLPC-Philippines] International support for ICT and Education in the Philippines

[Mel Chua]

Copying the olpc-philippines list for yay-transparency-ness...

Great to meet you, John. As a fellow education research geek (I've been 
involved in engineering education reform at the undergraduate level for 
the last 6 years), I'd love to hear more about your projects and what 
you're trying to do, so we can be optimally helpful. ;)

I'm not sure what formality level you're looking for in working with 
these projects - open source projects (including those in education) 
tend to be a little different than perhaps other 
education-and-technology projects in the Philippines (or elsewhere). We 
don't necessarily have formal organizations, hierarchies, or even legal 
entities; a lot of the strength of open source education projects is the 
self-directed interdependence of its participants. Leadership is by 
example, and emergent - not assigned. (And as Cherry pointed out, we're 
very much in the "emergent" stage right now.)

What that means is that it may be hard (if not impossible) for you to 
find a single constant contact point that will give you a complete, 
"authoritative" picture of "OLPC and/or Sugar Labs activities in the 
Philippines." (But then again, if the ethnography work that I've been 
involved with is any indication, that's usually impossible regardless of 
whether a formal hierarchy exists or not.) It also means that, if you're 
offering resources, it may take a little longer than usual for to 
determine who to give them to.

That having been said, it sounds that there are multiple people - myself 
included - who are quite keen to find a way to work with you on this. 
I'd suggest that everyone who's interested speaks up (by hollering out 
your interest on this email thread, for instance) and then, once we know 
who's interested and what you're looking for, we can figure out the best 
contact point(s) for what you want to do.

--Mel

Cherry Withers wrote:
> Hi John,
> 
> Thank you for your e-mail! We appreciate your extended hand especially 
> during these times.
> 
> We're trying to organize ourselves at this time. We are moving forward 
> but we still have fundamental things
> we need to address. We welcome your support! 
> 
> I'm copying Ryan, Sandeep and Mel on this e-mail.
> 
> Sincerely,
> Cherry
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Jon Mannion <jmannion_2000 at yahoo.com 
> <mailto:jmannion_2000 at yahoo.com>> wrote:
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>       International support for ICT and Education in the Philippines
> 
>     Tuesday, 9 June, 2009 10:59 AM
>     From:
>     "Jon Mannion" <jmannion at lausd.net <mailto:jmannion at lausd.net>>
>     View contact details
>     <http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/_ylc=X3oDMTBtcmthdmdnBF9TAzM5ODMyOTAyNwRhYwN2aWV3QUI-/SIG=1viptesvo/**http%3A//address.mail.yahoo.com/yab%3Fv=YM%26A=t%26simp=1%26em=jmannion%2540lausd.net%26fn=Jon%2BMannion%26.done=http%253A%252F%252Fuk.mc329.mail.yahoo.com%252Fmc%252FshowMessage%253FsMid%253D31%2526filterBy%253D%2526midIndex%253D31%2526mid%253D1_11236_AE9Fv9EAASGTSi6jHAr4bgWh2eg%2526m%253D1_7736_AFNFv9EAATroSi7kQwvqOwXywyM%25252C1_8444_AGxFv9EAAU95Si7G8Q4VaA8H%25252Bfw%25252C1_9132_AFJFv9EAAHJCSi6%25252BbArsqkl9lqs%25252C1_9958_AFNFv9EAAOEKSi68zwymal95nJQ%25252C1_10726_AFJFv9EAAJ9dSi6jeAqm1AwarmQ%25252C1_11236_AE9Fv9EAASGTSi6jHAr4bgWh2eg%25252C1_11825_AFBFv9EAARCKSi6PUw4kYktzfyI%25252C1_12492_AFFFv9EAAI%25252B1Si8dzgnJ4X2CJgc%25252C1_13169_AE9Fv9EAAFPKSi5UEgDKWQcBPfU%25252C1_13852_AFNFv9EAALiySi47DALECRC06so%25252C1_14509_AFRFv9EAAAc%25252BSi8c%25252BgIIcE9GoCg%25252C%2526sort%253Ddate%2526order%253Ddown%2526startMid%253D0%2526pSize%253D200%2526hash%253%0AD3f82083176801773481
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>     To:
>     jmannion_2000 at yahoo.com <mailto:jmannion_2000 at yahoo.com>
>     Cc:
>     "'NOEMI DIAZ'" <ntdiaz at hotmail.com <mailto:ntdiaz at hotmail.com>>
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>     Greetings
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>     I am heading research projects that will be based in the Philippines
>     2009-10.
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>     The focus will be on how Information Technologies are impacting
>     education, whether in schools or in non-formal settings.
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>     Presently we are hoping to build a national profile of how different
>     groups are involved with Information Technology.
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>     If you are interested in receiving support which includes hardware,
>     managerial, networking and technical resources please take 5 minutes
>     to complete the form at this location:
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>     http://www.jmannion.org/ngo/add_entry.cgi
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>     Please forward this to any individual or group that may be in a
>     place to take advantage of this support.
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>     Yours truly,
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> 
>     Mr. Jon Mannion
>     Doctoral Candidate Pepperdine University
>     Education Leadership and Technology
>     222 S Figueroa St Apt 1113 LA CA 90012
>     tel. 323 304 0812
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