Message From Executive Director

With the beginning of the new academic cycle in April 2011, the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project has entered its fourth year in Nepal. What started out as a small test project in two schools in Lalitpur three years ago has now expanded to 32 schools in eight districts covering over 3300 students from grades two to six. Read more

Deployment & Teacher Training 2011

OLE Nepal has recently completed the deployment of laptops in OLPC program schools, and conducted teacher training workshops at the districts. With the addition of grade five in the program this year, the project has now passed a major milestone in saturating all grades from two to six. This year, the program has also been introduced to three schools in a new district, Doti, and two new schools in Dadeldhura. Read more

Network team visit to Doti and Daheldhura

OLE Nepal's network team visited Dadeldhura and Doti districts from April 14 to 30 with the aim to check the school networks, connect more schools to the Internet, and survey the new schools for Internet connectivity. Read more

Open Source Software presentation at Prime Minister's Office

OLE Nepal and Language Technology Kendra (LTK) was invited to the Prime Minister's office on March 24, 2011 to present on open source software to bureaucrats and staff members. The event was chaired by Chief Secretary Mr. Madhav Prasad Ghimire and attended by Secretary Mr. Lilamani Poudel along with nearly forty staff and officials from the Office of Prime Minister and Council of Ministers Mr. Rabi Karmacharya and Mr. Subir Pradhanang from OLE Nepal gave an introduction. Read more

Workshop to develop ICT in Education proposal

As ongoing support to the Ministry of Education, OLE Nepal supported the ministry for a one day workshop to finalize its proposal on ICT based education and to develop a monitoring tool on March 24, 2011. The workshop was organized at Yala Maya Kendra in Patan whereas the Ministry organized the second part of the workshop at SAP Phalcha in Babarmahal.. Read more