188 Entries for “Recent Blogs”
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READ MORENov. 25, 2010 | Program Updates | OLE Nepal
Earthing and other measures to protect for network devices
OLE Nepal’s team of network engineers have been putting a lot of effort into connecting all 26 program schools in six districts to a school intranet. Amongst many advantages of such a network are the facility to monitor and update school servers remotely from OLE Nepal office and the ability to establish free and direct communication link between the schools and OLE Nepal.
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READ MOREAug. 24, 2010 | Program Updates | Rabi Karmacharya
Per Child Cost Analysis of OLPC Project in Nepal
OLE Nepal prepared a preliminary “per child cost” of the One Laptop Per Child project based on the pilot project carried out in the last academic year (April 2009 – March 2010) in 26 schools in six districts of Nepal. The project was implemented in partnership with Nepal Government’s Department of Education and funded by the Danish Government’s Local Grant Authority, UN World Food Programme’s Nepal Country Programme. The laptops were donated by the Swift Banking group through the OLPC Foundation.
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READ MOREJuly 26, 2010 | Program Updates | OLE Nepal
E-Pustakalaya Advisory Panel
Some very interesting ideas transpired. On the issue of copyright, E-Pustakalaya was advised to allow exclusive licenses according to the wishes of authors and publishers apart from the general creative commons license E-Pustakalaya uses for materials already available in the public domain. It was also decided that the E-Pustakalaya web page would have a section that features information on Authors/Publishers and their works, which will further promote their contributions to the digital library.
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READ MOREJune 10, 2010 | Program Updates | OLE Nepal
Curriculum Review Workshop
A two-day curriculum review workshop was held with officials from the Government of Nepal’s Curriculum Development Centre (CDC) at the International Club, Sanepa on June 11 and 12. The agenda for the workshop was to a) follow-up from an earlier discussion in February over creating detailed courses for the various subjects in each of the primary grades and b) review all new E-Paath software created by OLE Nepal.
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READ MOREMarch 24, 2010 | Program Updates | OLE Nepal
Exploring the possibility of expansion to Solukhumbu
A team consisting of representatives from OLE Nepal, the Department of Education (DoE) and Himalayan Health and Environment Services (HHES) visited the remote mountainous district of Solukhumbu to study the feasibility of expanding the OLPC project in the district. During the three-day visit from March 18 to 21, the team reached seven schools in Phaplu, Salleri, Garma, Khoriya, and Jaidu, and held an interaction programme for local stakeholders at the District Education Office located in the district headquarter, Salleri. The DoE team was led by Deputy Director Mr. Baburam Poudel who is also the government's OLPC focal person, and included Mr. Arjun Aryal and Ms. Sharmila Pant. HHES was represented by its Chairperson Mr. Ngima Tendup Sherpa while the OLE Nepal team consisted of Executive Director Mr. Rabi Karmacharya, Director for Government Relations Mr. Rajeev Adhikari and Network Engineer Mr. Basanta Shrestha.