<div dir="ltr">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:<div><br></div><div><a href="https://projectrive.wordpress.com/2014/07/24/kenscoff-special-report/">https://projectrive.wordpress.com/2014/07/24/kenscoff-special-report/</a><br></div><div><a href="https://projectrive.wordpress.com/2014/07/11/special-report-thomazeau/">https://projectrive.wordpress.com/2014/07/11/special-report-thomazeau/</a><br></div><div><a href="https://projectrive.wordpress.com/2014/07/27/worth-it/">https://projectrive.wordpress.com/2014/07/27/worth-it/</a><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 6:26 AM, Sebastian Silva <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sebastian@fuentelibre.org" target="_blank">sebastian@fuentelibre.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>On 15/05/15 21:44, Dan Tenason wrote:<br>
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<a href="http://laptop.org" target="_blank">laptop.org</a> 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.</blockquote>
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Perhaps like Adam, I am first and foremost a volunteer, who has been
often critical of central government deployment.<br>
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There was a wide, official survey in 2013, whose results summary are
available <a href="http://educaciontic.perueduca.pe/?p=810" target="_blank">here</a>
[1].<br>
On page 21 it says: <br>
Laptop Educativa Primaria: 64% operative, 36% inoperative <i>(XO-1
in rural schools)</i><br>
Laptop Educativa Secundaria: 71% operative, 29% inoperative <i>(XO-1.5
in towns, without Sugar)</i><br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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].<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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.<br>
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Regards,<br>
Sebastian<br>
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[1] <a href="http://educaciontic.perueduca.pe/?p=810" target="_blank">http://educaciontic.perueduca.pe/?p=810</a><br>
[2] <a href="http://pe.sugarlabs.org/ir/ClaVi" target="_blank">http://pe.sugarlabs.org/ir/ClaVi</a><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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