<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 15/05/15 21:44, Dan Tenason wrote: </div> <blockquote cite="mid:1431744268.2472219@f37.i.mail.ru" type="cite"> 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.</blockquote> 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 <a href="http://educaciontic.perueduca.pe/?p=810">here</a> [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] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://educaciontic.perueduca.pe/?p=810">http://educaciontic.perueduca.pe/?p=810</a> [2] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://pe.sugarlabs.org/ir/ClaVi">http://pe.sugarlabs.org/ir/ClaVi</a> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- I+D SomosAzucar.Org "icarito" #somosazucar en Freenode IRC "Nadie libera a nadie, nadie se libera solo. Los seres humanos se liberan en comunión" - P. Freire</pre> </body> </html>