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OLPC in South America - a firsthand report
by Brian Beaton - Tuesday, 14 December 2010, 11:20 PM
 

Good evening ... I saw this publication and read a couple of the reports. The one about Uruguay provides a lot of interesting stories and lessons for everyone to consider ... Brian 

OLPC in South America - a firsthand report 

OLPC in South AmericaSouth America represent the largest concentration of active OLPC projects in the world with more than 800,000 XO laptops distributed on the continent so far:

  • Uruguay is the first major country to achieve full 1-to-1 saturation with the distribution of approximately 400,000 XO laptops to every primary school pupil and teacher in late 2009.
  • Paraguay currently has 4,000 XOs on the ground and will receive another 5,000 over the coming months
  • Peru is close to finishing the process of distributing 300,000 XO laptops and recently purchased another 300,000.

Its obvious that South America is the place to be when it comes to understanding what the true status quo of OLPC on the ground is today. In July and August of 2010, Christoph Derdorfer spent more than six weeks traveling through Uruguay, Paraguay, and Peru to get a hands-on impression of how things were going in these three countries.

His findings published in the Educational Technology Debate stirred great passions and commentary.

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