Posts Tagged ‘OLPC’

Here at Seismonaut we are involved in a great number of exciting projects. One of them is focusing on introducing the XO laptop (formerly known as the $100 laptop) in an educational context in Nigeria. In a series of 3 blog posts through December I will be sharing updates on the progress of this project. In the first post (link here) I discussed what the greatest impact of the project has been… Today I will focus on the challenges of establishing a successful project in Nigeria and a little on the digital skills being picked up by the school children.

Seismonaut has teamed up with the Danish NGO Sudanmissionen to launch an OLPC pilot project in Nigeria. The Danish NGO has more than 50 years experience in creating and supporting educational programs in west africa, this however will be the first time the organization will be able to comprehensively evaluate the idea of giving laptops [...]

Last week, we had a meeting with the CEO of TV2 Østjylland (a local tv-station) about a new assignment we’re working on. At the end of the meeting we were chatting about different things – among others our engagement in the $100 laptop project. Much to the CEO’s surprise, Anders pulled out the XO laptop [...]

I have spent this past week in freezing cold Boston. Sunday evening I was about to head out to JFK to catch a flight from New York up to Boston, but an unexpected snow storm hitting the north east region meant that all flights had been canceled. Not wanting to risk my life on the [...]

For the past couple of weeks we’ve been playing around with the small and cute XO. A laptop that excites kids in developing countries but also has received it’s share of attention here at Seismonaut . If you want to have a closer look at the XO, feel free to drop by for our [...]

Here at Seismonaut we like digging deeper, digging differently and looking in less obvious and less well-researched areas. This has given us a number of interesting projects to work on, one of which took me to Nigeria last week.
Seismonaut was recently awarded a contract financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark. We [...]

There’s been some buzz around some of the areas we’re working with lately. First of all, Anders has talked with quite a few journalists during the last couple of months about the One Laptop Per Child project (or “The $100 Laptop” as many call it). He’s been in Nigeria a couple of times (actually he [...]