[Rwanda-learningteam] Goals, Roles, and Responsibilities

[David Cavallo]

As Nkubito asked, we need to concretely outline what needs to be done, 
who will do it, and what needs to be done.

Since the overall goal is a real transformation of the learning 
environment, including both in and out of school, to enable the fullest 
possible development of each child and thus to facilitate true, just 
social development, our plans must lay the best possible groundwork 
towards the accomplishment of the goals.

An immediate need from this exercise is to clarify the roles and 
responsibilities of the different groups: Mineduc, OLPC, RITC, WDA, etc. 
We also have the advantage of using the team from Uruguay to augment 
what we do. We also know we want to run volunteer programs at the 
universities to develop more people and add more resources.

 From this we will not only develop a plan for action that clarifies 
roles so that we can have accountability and clear lines of authority 
(so that we can finally end these ridiculous problems with RITC), but 
also we will formalize an MoU between OLPC and the government of Rwanda 
and Ministry of Education.

The plan and MoU also will include activities we will do from the Center 
for Laptops and Learning.

For example, we know we need to both give all teachers a basic 
introduction to the XO and to using it in the classroom to improve 
learning. We also need to find ways to introduce the more powerful uses 
of the laptops for learning somehow. From the Center we have thought of 
building capacity in teaching and learning; of developing new software 
and materials; of running seminars, etc.

You don't have to worry about everything and send a complete plan, but 
please send me items that believe to be essential  towards the pragmatic 
accomplishment of the goals and ideals that attracted all of us to olpc. 
Please be as specific and concrete as possible so that we can end the 
week with the strongest and clearest possible plan of action.

Thanks,
dc