OLPC Australia

Xo 1.5 preview and Australian OLPC Deployments
Aimee MareeForsstrom

OLPC - Australia The Mission!
Mission Statement: To improve the lives of children living in rural and remote Australia by providing them with a purpose-built educational tool that is rugged, low-cost, low-power and connected - the XO laptop.
Focus on communities with a Socio-Economic Index below national average of 1000

OLPC - AustraliaHow OLPC achieve their mission?
Deployed over 2500 XO laptops to 40 remote communities
Involvement of Department of Education in each State and Territory
Inclusion in the Educational curriculum in each State and Territory

Closing the Gap
Local Involvement
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OLPC - AustraliaEducation Project
Involvement of local teachers and community elders
Providing an online educational portal for teachers to be certified on using the Xo in classrooms
Local training and skill share for each deployment

Closing the Gap
Education
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What's an Xo?
Laptop designed for children
Designed for rugged environments
Educational tool
Low cost

Xo 1.5 The Software
Fedora Spin – Sugar
Sugar learning platform
Sugar Activities
Python 2.6
PyGTK
GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) 4.4.1
Xo 1.5 and beyond – GNOME 2.26.3

Xo 1.5 The Hardware
Rubber membrane keyboard and touchpad
Flash drive (1024MB NAND flash)
AMD Geode LX processor (integrated graphics processor) 1.3W at 433MHz
7.5-inch dual-mode thin film transistor (TFT) display
640x480 resolution video camera
Analog stereo sound chip802.11b/g compatible wireless Ethernet Marvel chipset
Battery between16.5 and 22 watt-hours of operation
Other power sources such as solar panels, car batteries

Closing the Gap
Questions

OLPC Australia

by aimee maree on Oct 02, 2010

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