[IAEP] Sugar Numbers

[Adam Holt]

On May 16, 2015 6:29 AM, "Sean DALY" <sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Dan - if you are sincerely interested in the numbers, why don't you write
to the education ministries? In serious research, as in serious journalism,
you need to consult official sources.

Ground-truthing takes years but yes is possible for anybody who takes an
anthropological approach, starting in-country especially: developing
insider sources within Ministries of Education, within local newspapers,
within the logistics/support chain, identifying influential but
behind-the-scenrs teachers/parents/kids/churches, etc.

Heroic, struggling people inevitably emerge if one digs deep enough.  In
particular, former workforce (paid and unpaid) can be very sincerely
forthcoming, having committed their lives, often getting to the truth
faster -- profoundly committed to their countries evolving and learning
from past implementation/support models, one decade to the next...

(Conversely, the lazy but all too common approach of asking any single
source did-tablets-kill-XO's-in-country-ABC will rarely get to the bottom
of anything)

> Sean Daly (no "e")
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> On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 4:44 AM, Dan Tenason <dan.tenason at mail.ru> wrote:
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>> The Sugar Labs website is still stating  "Sugar's Activities are used
every school day by nearly 3 million children." Mr Daley stated this number
is based on Total number of XOs shipped as reported by OLPC + total number
of copies of Sugar on a Stick downloaded.
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>> laptop.org  states that about 15,000 XO are in Hati. I was wondering if
Mr. Holt, who is active in Hati, is willing to comment on the number of
laptops in daily use in Hati.
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>> 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.
>>
>> laptop.org states that about 15,000 XOs are in Birmingham, Alabama.
Could anyone comment on the number of those laptops in use?
>>
>> Finally latop.org states that about 850,000 XOs are in Uruguay.
Research in Uruguay indicates that in 2012 about 4.1% of students used
their XOs all or most days.
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>> --
>> Dan Tenason
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