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An update on OLPC pilots and related projects

An update on OLPC pilots and related projects
Submitted by sverma on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - 17:22 OLPC | XO

Here's a quick set of links to update you all on different pilots that are either ongoing or are completed around the world. Then there is the "Our Stories" project that's very interesting.

Our Stories (http://www.ourstories.org) is a joint project involving OLPC, UNICEF, Google, and others to facilitate children telling their own stories and those of their communities around the world. The basic format will be 3-5 minute audio recordings with geodata, and optional text and images; these will be visualized on maps of the world, and shared publicly over local and global networks.

The Story Corps team helped with advice about their own process for interviewing a friend or loved one that will work for a young audience of interviewers; the idea is to localize the process and surrounding projects, and to carry out class activities around such interviews in OLPC partner countries. The project hopes to have a third of all XO owners record a story by the end of next year.

Pilot study information:

 



 


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