On May 16, 2015 10:29 PM, "Sora Edwards-Thro" <<a href="mailto:sora@unleashkids.org">sora@unleashkids.org</a>> wrote: > > In Haiti, OLPC sent laptops to four towns: Kenscoff, Lascahobas, Thomazeau, and Jacmel. As far as I know, the OLPC nonprofits (OLPCF & OLPCA) had little to do with selecting these four Haiti towns, and their in-country logistics. IADB and Haiti's central govt were much more involved in deployment planning/management/oversight, despite some brief early efforts by OLPC/MIT consultants to get Haitian Creole content translation moving in 2008. Despite detailed IADB-centric planning in 2008 especially, execution of those plans was already widely mocked even before the earthquake struck in 2010, with a few too many parallels to Birmingham. Sebastian is quite correct XO laptop hardware's high durability continues to surpass expectations 7 years later, in Haiti and many other places. Whereas Birmingham's volunteers/staff had to work thru a quite high number of repair issues. Tragically many XO laptops lacked electrical power in Haiti's govt deployment, sadly rarely turned on for this reason especially, but also for other reasons... Haiti govt insiders/alums more full retrospective would be valuable some day, adding to Sora's spot excavation insights below. (Tim Falconer and Bill Stelzer used to meet many of these official implementation alums around Port-au-Prince: a diversity of their enigmatic stories deserve to be told, there are lessons to be learned here, before it's too late—) Of course those who love numbers will be frustrated in Haiti, a fascinating society and stunningly beautiful landscape, but a nearly-failed state that does not have census-electoral clarity, nor any agreement whether 100,000 or 300,000 died in the quake :/ > I've visited three of them to try and figure out what happened to the XOs. Here's what I found: > > <a href="https://projectrive.wordpress.com/2014/07/24/kenscoff-special-report/">https://projectrive.wordpress.com/2014/07/24/kenscoff-special-report/</a> > <a href="https://projectrive.wordpress.com/2014/07/11/special-report-thomazeau/">https://projectrive.wordpress.com/2014/07/11/special-report-thomazeau/</a> > <a href="https://projectrive.wordpress.com/2014/07/27/worth-it/">https://projectrive.wordpress.com/2014/07/27/worth-it/</a> > > On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 6:26 AM, Sebastian Silva <<a href="mailto:sebastian@fuentelibre.org">sebastian@fuentelibre.org</a>> wrote: >> >> >> On 15/05/15 21:44, Dan Tenason wrote: >>> >>> >>> <a href="http://laptop.org">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. >> >> >> 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 [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 href="http://educaciontic.perueduca.pe/?p=810">http://educaciontic.perueduca.pe/?p=810</a> >> [2] <a href="http://pe.sugarlabs.org/ir/ClaVi">http://pe.sugarlabs.org/ir/ClaVi</a> >> >> -- >> 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. 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