ICT for Development
“Quality, open innovation and the GC21 E-Academy” – these themes have been at the core of GIZ’s engagement at eLearning Africa, the continents largest conference on ICT for development, education and training. The ‘Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)’ reached out to the more than 1700 participants from all over the world gathering in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania from May 25 to 27.
Gestern bekam ich von der Praktikantin Anne Grau einen interessanten Bericht über die OLPC-Initiative aus Äthiopien, den ich hier mit ihrem Einverständnis publizieren darf. [Read more →]
Child balancing $100 Laptop on his head (ABC-News)
The $100 laptop, first announced at the 2005 World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Tunis, is becoming a reality. The “One Laptop Per Child”(OLPC) education project has developed the innovative low cost laptop as a learning device for school children in low income countries.
Small scale trials of the new technology and education concept are already underway in schools in Ethiopia, Nigeria, Brazil and Rwanda. The first large scale roll-outs are expected to commence before the end of the year. Devices will be priced at around $175 but prices are expected to fall as the project progresses.
IT-Experts from the German-Ethiopian “Engineering Capacity Building Programme” (ECBP) support the test of 40 laptops (beta 4) at an Ethiopian school. Today already it is clear that a successful large scale roll-out will involve a complex package of tasks reaching from the development of teaching concepts to training for teachers and support technicians and the logistics of deployment.
Further information: http://laptop.org
http://wiki.laptop.org/go
http://www.ecbp.biz/about/one.html
Contact: thomas.rolf@gtz.de
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