[Olpc-za] Questionnaire

[Antoine van Gelder]

Hi everyone,

We're now at 21 subscribers so it's probably time to slowly start moving 
towards making something happen.

I've therefore put together the first draft of the 
nowhere-close-to-official olpc-za questionaire and thought I'd bounce it 
off everyone so we can get a rough idea of what the olpc-za community 
looks like.

Please post your answers back to the list.

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1. What is your name ?


2. What city do you live in ?


3. What role do you play in your day job ?

   a) Educator
   b) Administrator
   c) Marketer
   d) Software developer
   e) Content developer
   f) Hardware developer
   g) Politician
   h) Investor
   i) Graphic/Web design
   j) Artist
   k) Psychologist
   l) Anthropologist
   m) Lawyer
   n) Accountant
   o) Nurse or Doctor
   p) Policeman
   q) Network administration
   r) Telecommunications engineer
   s) Researcher
   t) Project manager
   u) Builder
   v) Student
   w) Activist
   x) Scientist
   y) Lumberjack
   z) Other (Please specify)


4. Do you have experience teaching computer science to school children ?


5. Do you have experience teaching other subjects to school children 
with the aid of computers ?


6. Do you have experiencing teaching school children with or without the 
aid of computers ?


7. Do you have experience working in rural or inner-city schools ?


8. Do you have experience working in rural or inner-city communities ?


9a. Do you have experience working in private or other schools in high 
income areas ?

9b. If yes, what do you see are the biggest benefits the kids receive 
from having more money spent on their education ?


10. If we were to divide the job of bringing OLPC to South Africa into 
seven broad categories, which one would you see yourself being most 
active in ?

   a) Being part of a grassroots community helping schools and educators 
to get the most from their laptops.

   b) Developing software and/or content for the laptop.

   c) Critic.

   d) Using the laptop in the classroom.

   e) Moral support.

   f) Helping to drive the buy-in process to gain the support of 
Government, Education Departments, Provincial Administrations, 
Universities, Aid Agencies, Philanthropic Investors, Funding Agencies etc.

   g) Documenting the progress and results of the project.


11. Do you think the first OLPC pilot program should be run in a rural 
school or an inner-city school ?


12. What are your top three reasons for why OLPC won't work (or won't 
work as well as it could) in South Africa ?


13. What are the top three benefits you see if South Africa were to 
invest in OLPC ?


14. What other questions should I have asked in this questionaire ? :-D


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Thanks!

  - antoine