[OLPC-SF] Links Peer-reviews or independent assessments of Ethiopia tablet deployment?

[Sameer Verma]

On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 10:16 PM, Mike Lee <curiouslee at gmail.com> wrote:
> Mark,
>
> Too true about Maryanne's relationship. It's kind of moot now that
> Nicholas is quickly winding down his already minimal involvement with
> OLPC to take on the X-Prize full time. I imagine the Ethiopia tablet
> deployment will have to go on life support as he suggested in that
> audio recording.
>
> I think the lack of documentation is just based on the fact that they
> were working fast and loose. Like with a lot of OLPC information,
> there's a fair amount "hidden in plain sight."
>
> One of the former developers at OLPC posted a detailed entry on his
> personal blog about some of the software installed, most
> significantly, the use of the Funf logging framework for Android.
> Scott also links to a some archived Livestreams where the tech team
> went into extreme detail on how the Xoom tablets were provisioned and
> managed. I saw those talks in person at the OLPC SF summit, but didn't
> manage to take notes.
>

Those videos are here:
http://blog.laptop.org/2012/11/03/the-reading-project-in-ethiopia-explained-by-the-olpc-team-involved-in-the-experiment

Sameer

> http://cananian.livejournal.com/67703.html
>
> The Xoom tablet was passed around and I managed to get some photos of
> the home screens where you can see some of the installed apps:
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/curiouslee/sets/72157631821883809/
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/curiouslee/sets/72157631841452526/
>
> A search of the OLPC Wiki turns up some interesting meeting notes and
> a mention that all the code is on a private repository on Github.
>
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Special:Search?search=xoom&fulltext=y
>
> It might be worth asking Nicholas (or whomever is in charge of
> engineering) if the repo can be opened up. The wiki note says to ask
> "David," which I assume is Nicholas' assistant.
>
> Mike
>
> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 12:44 AM, Mark Summer <mark.summer at inveneo.org> wrote:
>> Hi Mike,
>>
>> Thanks a lot for forwarding the links and even pointing to the specific
>> timestamps on the audio. I'll certainly be looking forward to seeing if
>> Maryanne Wolf will release some report - but something that might be of
>> concern is that she is a scientific advisor to OLPC and therefor would
>> usually not be considered completely unbiased.
>>
>> What surprises me the most is that there is so little information out there
>> to validate the results reported by Negroponte. Also I'm looking for exactly
>> what software was/is installed on these tablets and what software/tools are
>> being use to take the usage. Negroponte talks about how much they track
>> "every movement" on the screen and every interaction but I can't seem to
>> locate any more then these references - no clear publishing on the data....
>> (around 55:00 in the audio). If you know of any any more interesting links
>> I'd very much appreciate  that.
>>
>> Thanks a lot!
>>
>> Mark
>>
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>> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 7:39 PM, Mike Lee <curiouslee at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Mark,
>>>
>>> Here's the one non-media outsider visit that I recall:
>>>
>>> https://evanszablowski.wordpress.com/2012/07/25/one-laptop-per-child/
>>>
>>> In his talk recently at the AAAS, Nicholas says that Maryanne Wolf of
>>> Tufts visited the deployment about two months ago. So she would be a
>>> person to watch for public statements or publications. Much of the
>>> talk either rehashes OLPC history or addresses the new X-Prize. The
>>> mention of her is at 29:20 in this audio recording:
>>>
>>> https://soundcloud.com/mike-lee-11/nicholas-negroponte-at-aaas
>>>
>>> Q&A begins at 37:30 with a question about Maryanne's visit. Related
>>> discussion at 41:10, 44:10, 47:20 and maybe useful nuggets after that.
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Mark Summer <mark.summer at inveneo.org>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Hello,
>>> >
>>> > I'm trying to find out if there are any assessments / peer-reviews or
>>> > any
>>> > other even simple visit reports of the deployment of Motorola tablets in
>>> > Ethiopia by MIT/OLPC and others from last year. It was extensively
>>> > discussed
>>> > in the media shortly after the press announcement in November. Does
>>> > anyone
>>> > on the list have any pointers?
>>> >
>>> > I'm trying to identify outsider reports of how successful this
>>> > deployment
>>> > was, if the devices are still in use and what may be observed after an
>>> > additional 6 month of use.... Any resource of be of great interest.
>>> >
>>> > Thanks!
>>> >
>>> > Mark
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
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