OLPC Oceania Overview Nov09

One Laptop per Pacific Child Michael Hutak Regional Director, Oceania OLPC Country Planning Workshop 11-13 November 2009 University of the South Pacific Suva, Fiji

“ An education project, not a laptop project…
… children are our mission, not our market.”

OLPC MISSION: develop and distribute a robust, low-cost laptop that can transform how we educate the world's children.

One Laptop per Child
Global non-profit association
MIT Media Lab
First project in Senegal in 1982
XO laptop launched in 2005.
First XO deployment Feb ‘07
Mass production Nov ’07
1.2m units produced
Projects in 31 countries in 19 languages

One Laptop per Child
OLPC Foundation
advocacy for 1-to-1 computing and joyful learning
using grassroots technology for education in developing countries
champion for children
OLPC Association
Develops and manufactures the XO laptop
services deployment

Global start-up partners

a child-centred approach
Children lack opportunity not capability
Learning to learn; learning by doing
Inquiry beyond school, school hours
Reaching the poorest, most isolated kids
Using ICT to learn, not learning to use ICT!

Five core principles
child ownership*
low ages
saturation
connection
free & open source
* In the Pacific, child is custodian

The Pacific
World’s largest ocean – stretching from pole to pole
46% of Earth's water surface
32% of Earth's total surface area
Larger than all of the Earth's land area combined.
approx. 25,000 islands

Pacific challenges
Poverty: 6 Least Developed Countries (LDCs) -- Kiribati, Samoa, Solomon Is., Tuvalu, Vanuatu and PNG.
Globalization, natural and human- made disasters, food security, rapid population growth and increasing rates of urbanization
Climate change -- PICs less than 0.5% global emissions, yet 3 X more vulnerable to CC(IPCC)
Impacts on the environment esp. depleted fish stocks
Protection of indigenous language, culture and practices, local markets and livelihoods, communities and families
Fragile states, governance, weak capacity

Pacific education
c. 1.7m children aged 6-12
40% 6-12yos attend no school
Church sector has significant skills and capacity
Movement to preserve indigenous languages
PNG: over 830 languages, inc. English and two lingua francas, Tok Pisin and Hiri Motu.
435 languages used for initial education, in 1980 just two in Bougainville (North Solomons)
Pacific-wide trend to emerging level of formal education called “elementary” – years 1-3 taught in the vernacular

One Laptop per Pacific Child
Focus on partnership
Empowerment of communities
Country-led national programmes
Regional coord & tech assistance
Country-to-country exchange
Collaborative, inclusive approach

Global and Pacific Policy Framework
In the Pacific, OLPC is guided by several core policy touchstones:
1990 Convention on the Rights of the Child
2000 Education for All (UNESCO)
2000 Millennium Development Goals
MDG 1 – poverty and hunger
MDG 2 – universal primary education
MDG 3 – gender equality
MDG 8 – partnership for development
2005 Tunis Commitment to bridge the digital divide, WSIS
2005 Pacific Aid Effectiveness Principles
2005-14 UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development
2005, 2007 Pacific Plan, Pacific Islands Forum
2007 Pacific Regional Digital Strategy
2007 PIF Leaders’ Communiqué
2007 Cape Town Open Education Declaration

OLPC Oceania 2008-15

OLPC: successful project drivers

OLPC Oceania 2008-15 2008 – Pilots in 5 countries 2009-10 OLPC introduced and assessed for scale-up by at least 13 countries 2010-15 OLPC scaled up to deliver by 2015 one laptop per every child in basic education

Roadmap to One Laptop per Pacific Child
2007 Pacific Plan, Digital Strategy
Pilot and design phase
OLPC/SPC Partnership
Pilots in 5 PIF countries
2009-10 Program and implementation phase
Technical Working Group formed
Country led national programs OLPC introduced in 14 PIF countries
2010-15 Scale up to sustainability

2008: Pilots in 5 countries
Regional TA Partners:
One Laptop Per Child Foundation Inc.
Secretariat of the Pacific Community
Pilots in 5 countries:
Nauru (1)
Niue (1)
Solomon Islands (3)
Papua New Guinea (3)
Vanuatu (1)
Funds expended – US$2.5 million:
OLPC donates 5000 laptops to Pacific worth US$2m
OLPC and SPC assign human resources worth US$500k.

‘ Every PACRICS site is an OLPC hub’
RICS provides the broad infrastructure to facilitate at-scale OLPC rollout in remote contexts.
Orders for 200 RICS sites
Approx 400 kids per site
ADB-funded for 5 years

Solomon Is

Nauru’s rich task curriculum

OLPC PNG teacher training

2008 Pilot Phase: lessons learned
OLPC adds value for children, communities, countries
OLPC aligns with Pacific goals and plans, inc. MDGs
Country-level demand, political and community support in the Pacific
Small trials provide an insufficient evidence base
M&E should be integrated at the outset
Broader-based TA needed to build country capacity
A standing stock of XO laptops and peripherals should be centrally kept in the region to efficiently feed trials (“Pacific Pool”)

2008 Pilot Phase: outputs
Country-led, region-wide demand
Technical Working Group
Pacific Country Program model
4. Community Consultation Guidelines
5. OLPC Pacific Pool

Country-level demand - official requests from (at least) 14 countries

Pacific Country Program model
Developed by TECHNICAL WORKING GROUP from lessons learned from pilots:
Country Program Plan
Goals
Team/Governance/Coordination
Needs Assessment/Analysis
Implementation
M&E activities
Resource mobilisation
Rollout
must proceed with entire school populations (no students excluded)
should address priority needs of children and communities
should be coordinated across the whole of government
First deployment is highly strategic and must involve key personnel:
Training of trainers
Local IT deployment specialists
Teachers and other key edu. Staff inc. inspectors and M&E specialists
Community engagement program
M&E framework
Designated TWG Focal Point, National Core Team

Coord Model: National Core Team
Cross-cutting “whole of government” approach
Cabinet sub-committee, led at Ministerial level
Reports to National Planning Committee
Workplan developed at Dept Secretary level
Five core sub-teams...

Pacific model: vernacular edu
OLPC strengthens this movement and protects local languages
Cf: XO in Kosrae in FSM
First deployed to Years 4-6 in English
Older kids adapt XO to Kosrean
Then deployed to years 1-3 in vernacular
This model scalable across Pacific

OLPC Oceania Technical Working Group Mission: Assess the viability of OLPC initiative in Oceania and its suitability for scaling up from 2010 to 2015. Objective: Facilitate OLPC Country Programmes in 13 PICTs

OLPC Oceania TWG – private sector roles

OLPC Pacific Pool: Ripple effect

2009-10: Trials in 14 countries
Regional TA Partners:
Technical Working Group
Funds required 3.5m:
TWG 1.0m
Pacific Pool 2.5m
OLPC requested by:
Fiji • Samoa
FSM • Solomon Is.
Nauru • Tokelau
Niue • Tonga
Palau • Tuvalu
PNG • Vanuatu
RMI • Fr. Polynesia

2009-10 outcomes
OLPC Country Trials in 14 PICTs
Credible evidence base to enable countries to assess capacity and readiness to sustainability scale up
M&E country-level baseline model
Independent evaluation of TWG

2009: other projects in dev.
Papua New Guinea (Divine Word University)
PNG Sustainable Development Program
Lihir Sustainable Development Program
East Sepik Provincial Government
New Ireland Provincial Government
Timor-Leste
Talks w/ World Food Program, World Vision and TL Govt
Kosrae (Federated States of Micronesia)
2.5k XOs over two years
Australia
1800 of 5000 XOs to Pacific to remote aboriginal schools

Painting created on the XO by child from Gaire, Papua New Guinea, 2008.

Thank you. www.laptop.org

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