Solomon Islands, north of Australia and part of Oceania, is the first site in the Pacific region to have a substantial program of OLPC laptops in remote schools.The many islands that make up the Solomons are served by 9 VSAT satellite dishes on sites denoted as Distance Learning Centres. Pilot sites are located at Bekabeka, Patukae and Batuna primary schools on Gatokae island in the Western Province of the Solomons. See: http://olpcoceania.blogspot.com
In the summer of 2009, an American One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) representative asked a group of South African grade 5 students what makes them sad.
Filmed and edited by Olesia Plokhii.
“We are a team of 4 university students from UMiami, Cornell, and UMinnesota who received a grant from OLPC to distribute 200 laptops in Senegal. This video consists of some clips from student/teacher training, and an interview with Pierre Khar Tine, the headmaster of Ecole Notre Dame, the school that we deployed at in Mboro, Senegal. One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) is an NGO dedicated to improving education through computing. It designed a revolutionary laptop, the XO-1, for children to use.”