[Marketing] OLPC PR on BusinessWire: The Government of Peru Expands the One Laptop Per Child Program with Local Manufacturing

[Giulia D'Amico]

Hi Sebastian,

Thanks for this info. The OLPC Blog has been modified.
Best,


On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 3:20 AM, Sebastian Silva
<sebastian at somosazucar.org>wrote:

>  There is an error of attribution in the following paragraphs.  The
> translation projects to Aymara and Quechua have not been supported by the
> Ministry nor OLPC.
> In order to clarify, it was the* Somos Azúcar international team **(
> http://www.somosazucar.org/ )** *who is responsible for such initiatives.
>
> Looking forward for a correction,
> Sebastian Silva
> Somos Azúcar
>
> From OLPC's blog:
> http://blog.laptop.org/2011/04/05/peru-to-expand-to-1m-xos/
> (...)
> "And the Peru Ministry of Education continues to invest in developing new
> Sugar applications and learning games for their own schools and others, *finishing
> translations of Sugar into Aymara and Quechua,* and translating a
> teacher’s curriculum guide — most recently into French for schools in
> Madagascar."
> (...)
>
> From Businesswire:
> http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110405006842/en/Government-Peru-Expands-Laptop-Child-Program-Local
>
> (...)
> In addition, Peru is playing a significant role in developing applications
> for Sugar, the learning platform that runs on the XO laptop. Engineers in
> Lima have written interactive learning games; *a team in Puno is
> translating the software into Aymara and Quechua*; and a curriculum guide
> written by a Peruvian teacher has been recently translated into French for
> schools to use it in Madagascar -- all further evidence of the great impact
> that the Ministry of Education (MEC)-OLPC project has had both domestically
> and globally.
> (...)
>  -------- Mensaje original --------  Asunto: Re: [Marketing] OLPC PR on
> BusinessWire: The Government of Peru Expands the One Laptop Per Child
> Program with Local Manufacturing  Fecha: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 14:58:41 -0500  De:
> Rafael Ortiz <rafael at activitycentral.com> <rafael at activitycentral.com>  A:
> Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com> <sdaly.be at gmail.com>  CC: Sugar Labs
> Marketing <marketing at lists.sugarlabs.org> <marketing at lists.sugarlabs.org>
>
> Noticed on olpc-blog
>
>
>  http://blog.laptop.org/2011/04/05/peru-to-expand-to-1m-xos/
>
> On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
>
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