In Haiti, OLPC sent laptops to four towns: Kenscoff, Lascahobas, Thomazeau, and Jacmel. I've visited three of them to try and figure out what happened to the XOs. Here's what I found:
https://projectrive.wordpress.com/2014/07/24/kenscoff-special-report/ https://projectrive.wordpress.com/2014/07/11/special-report-thomazeau/ https://projectrive.wordpress.com/2014/07/27/worth-it/ On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 6:26 AM, Sebastian Silva <sebast...@fuentelibre.org> wrote: > > On 15/05/15 21:44, Dan Tenason wrote: > > > laptop.org states that about 900,000 XOs are in Peru. I was wondering if > Mr. Silva, who is active in Peru, is willing to comment on the number of > laptops in daily use in Peru. > > > Perhaps like Adam, I am first and foremost a volunteer, who has been often > critical of central government deployment. > > There was a wide, official survey in 2013, whose results summary are > available here <http://educaciontic.perueduca.pe/?p=810> [1]. > On page 21 it says: > Laptop Educativa Primaria: 64% operative, 36% inoperative *(XO-1 in > rural schools)* > Laptop Educativa Secundaria: 71% operative, 29% inoperative *(XO-1.5 in > towns, without Sugar)* > > The machines themselves have proven quite durable. Two pages later, 52 and > 53 percent of respondents state that the cause for inoperativeness was > "deprogrammed/deconfigured". Personally, I attribute this to the misguided > DRM locking mechanism (wrongly called "security"). I can't think of another > practical way to "unconfigure" a laptop to the point of it being > inoperative. This is my informal perception from the field as well: The > main reason laptops aren't used is this locking mechanism. > > Our own (SomosAzucar+SugarLabs Platform Teams) first version > grassroots-community driven operating system update, which was distributed > officially by the Ministry in 2014, has a monitoring mechanism that is able > to tell us how many machines have been installed which have ever been > online on the Internet. At this time there are over 27300 laptops who have > ever called home. Considering low connectivity penetration, and the fact > that this OS is aimed only at primary, rural schools, we are quite pleased > with the adoption of this project. > > Certainly it is still possible to have a massive impact in Peru, thru > these laptops. Our own volunteer efforts are aiming at setting up a > permaculture station/learning laboratory in the rainforest region, where we > can have a place to experiment and work with volunteers in the field, with > different kinds of technologies applied to the environment and common good > [2]. > > Our logic is, the value of the project is not the the sum of value of each > individual equipment, it is potentially the value of a network of children > who have cameras and connectivity at their disposal. What is the value of a > network of children, actively sharing information about their surroundings? > It is not measurable, I think. This is the inspiration that continues to > fuel our efforts, regardless of the hardware. > > As a technical volunteer in the field, my time is of a lot of value, > especially since we are in the middle of an expedition. > So I would ask you to share more about your own project so that we can > better give you relevant information and try to help you be useful to the > ecosystem. > > Regards, > Sebastian > > [1] http://educaciontic.perueduca.pe/?p=810 > [2] http://pe.sugarlabs.org/ir/ClaVi > > -- > I+D SomosAzucar.Org > "icarito" #somosazucar en Freenode IRC > "Nadie libera a nadie, nadie se libera solo. Los seres humanos se liberan en > comuniĆ³n" - P. Freire > > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >
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