Who we are We are the guys from upstairs who play loud music and disturb everyone else. Currently there are eleven interns working for OLE Nepal. All of us are intelligent, hard-working and energetic young high school graduates committed to helping change the Nepalese education system. We were too lazy to apply to colleges while [...]

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You may have read Rabi’s recent post about the formative evaluation of our test schools Vishwamitra Ganesh and Bashuki. We are proud of the progress we have made and are now starting to focus on expanding OLPC to more Nepali schools in spring 2009. Our current plan is to expand from one district to five [...]

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This is a summary of the findings of a formative evaluation carried out by Mr. Uttam Sharma, a doctoral student at at the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota. The evaluation was carried out for OLE Nepal’s internal purpose. The results are expected to help learn about the shortcomings of the current [...]

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Last week, I spent a fair amount of time stumbling through the various available methods for reading on a computer. Our current method is that of the .pdf. Well, if your are at all like me, you hate reading a .pdf soft-copy. I always end up printing the damn thing, so I can sit down [...]

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Bernie Innocenti arrived in Kathmandu a week ago and he has changed the OLE Nepal office in so many ways. For one thing, this guy knows linux inside and out, in so much more depth than anyone else on the team. He has already made a big impact on the sysadmin team by showing us [...]

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This week, Bernie Innocenti, Sunil Pokhrel, and Uttam Sharma joined the OLE Nepal Community. They are all extremely talented in their various fields, and welcome additions to OLE Nepal. Bernie, as you may be able to tell from his last name, is from Florence, Italy. Bernie is a self-described geek, and will be with us [...]

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Yesterday, I had an opportunity to read an Academic Commentary by our Education Director, Dr. Saurav Dev Bhatta titled “Tackling the Problems of Quality and Disparity in Nepal’s School – Education: The OLPC Model.” While I had developed a relative comprehension of the OLE Nepal project, Dr. Bhatta’s article truly captured the project, providing the [...]

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