[plug] Fwd: [Linux-aus] $11.7m for OLPC Australia in the federal govt budget

[Luke John]

For those of you who aren't on the SLUG or Linux-aus mailing lists.

"A core belief of OLPC Australia is that technology cannot be
successfully deployed without teacher training and buy-in from the
school, children and community. Our programme to address that is
called One Education: http://www.one-education.org/

You can fill in the contact form on that site if you would like to
know more, would like to help, or are a school that would like to
participate in the programme."

Luke John


On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Euan de Kock <euan at dekock.net> wrote:

>  It'd be interesting to see how this compares to the amount spent on
> laptops for traditional schools.
>
>
> Still it's a step in the right direction.
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>
> Euan
>
> On 09/05/2012 10:07 Shanon Loughton wrote:
> awesome!
>
>
> On 9 May 2012 01:28, James Bromberger <james at rcpt.to> wrote:
>
>>  Dear all,
>> Thought you may be interested in this...
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------  Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 11:03:26 +1000  From:
>> Sridhar Dhanapalan <sridhar at dhanapalan.com> <sridhar at dhanapalan.com>
>>
>> "The Australian Government is providing over $11 million to support
>> the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Program which will deliver over 50,000
>> custom built laptops to primary students in regional and remote
>> Australia as part of a 12 month pilot program. The OLPC Australia
>> Organisation (OLPC Australia) aims to support the learning
>> opportunities of indigenous children, particularly those in remote
>> Australia, by providing primary school aged children with a connected
>> XO laptop as part of a sustainable training and support program.
>> Participating schools will also receive information and communications
>> technology (ICT) coordinator professional development, local repair
>> kits, and access to helpdesk and online support."
>> http://blog.laptop.org/2012/05/08/australian-brilliance-government-12m-pilot/
>>
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