[IAEP] [support-gang] How Many XOs?

[george pope]

Sounds pretty good. Who were some of the bigger players who financed
these? I been fretting  about how to raise money for 500 or at least
100 XOs to Ghana. I'll be returning to Ghana in a few months and want
to put something together. Advice most welcome.

What educational arguments were made to justify buying and shipping
all these 2 million? Please advise.

Ghana's population is about 22 million. I "suppose" that there are 1.8
million in the 3rd-8th grade age group  (my rough calculation
attached). at $220 a pop, US $410 million is needed to supply XOs to
these students. Shipping,and volunteer tech support costs are not
included.

george pope

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 5:19 AM, Robert Fadel <robert at laptop.org> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 23:06, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> I agree with Walter.  About two million.  I don't have access to the
>>> internal figures.
>>>
>>> See also 1,834,500 in a probably partial list of laptop orders:
>>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Laptop_per_Child#Summary_of_laptop_orders
>>
>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Deployments
>> There are over 2.1 million XOs in the field as of January, 2011.
>
> we update the wiki and the map every 4-8 weeks based on the actual order and
> producation schedules
>
> a mapping of many of those same deployments:
> http://one.laptop.org/map
>
> r/
>
>>
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