The E-Pustakalaya team has planned to start the new year by introducing new features to our website and upgrading much of our system. Some of these features are easily noticeable by users while, some will be running in the background (I don’t want to ruin the surprise but we are hoping that it is what [...]

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OLE Nepal’s bimonthly newsletter for September-October 2011 (Issue 11) can be accessed at: http://olenepal.org/ole_newsletter/issue11/OLENepal_Newsletter_SepOct_2011.pdf If you wish to subscribe to the newsletter, please email to newsletter@olenepal.org.

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OLE Nepal’s bimonthly newsletter for July-August 2011 (Issue 10) can be accessed at: http://www.pustakalaya.org/view.php?pid=Pustakalaya:2679 If you wish to subscribe to the newsletter, please email newsletter@olenepal.org.

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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 (DoE)’s and funded [...]

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Open Learning Exchange (OLE) Nepal has been working on its digital library, E-Pustakalaya, since summer 2008. Several accomplishments have been made and E-Pustakalaya (www.pustakalaya.org) has now been launched publicly with some basic features and content; more content as well as features will be added in the future. The Nepal Library Foundation (NLF), Canada, who assist [...]

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Nepal’s OLPC deployments are now more than seven months old. I get a lot of questions about deployment issues and solutions. I hope the following information is helpful. First, a snapshot of our deployments: OLE’s progress in Nepal Deployments began at Vishwamitra Ganesh and Bashuki public schools on April 23rd, 2008. 135 XO-1 laptops deployed [...]

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This is a compilation of observations from the first week of the laptop implementation at the two rural schools in Nepal — Bashuki and Bishwamitra Ganesh. After the launch of the project on April 25th, we visited the schools for the next six days, spending entire days working with the teachers and observing the classrooms. [...]

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