Rwanda

[Paul Colmer]

Hi guys,

After Terry's pic's of the floating village in north Vietnam i was
happy to find that they had implemented the OLPC (one laptop per
child) policy. In conversation over xmas i found out that this is
active in Rwanda ( Africa) as we speak. A friend of mine has fallen in
love with the VT concept and will be in Rwanda +/- 2 weeks and one off
his meetings will be with his buddy who runs the OLPC project. The
feedback i get is that the country is stable, has a commited president
that supports upliftment and has full backing of all international
funding. He believes that the VT could be a Godsend there, so my
question is, do we have any active VT projects there already ? Is
there a base or do we start from scratch ?

Happy New year to all and any feedback appreciated

Paul

[Song, Stephen]

Hi Paul,

Happy New Year. AFAIK we don't have any Village Telco implementation
in Rwanda. I do know some of the people implementing OpenMRS
(http://www.openmrs.org) in rural Rwanda, for which there may be some
interesting overlaps, if you would like an introduction.

Cheers... Steve

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[Paul Colmer]

Hi Steve

Thanks for that, i checked out the openmrs site and the Video,
including the bit from you ! Interesting stuff !

Yes a contact within the group woul be appreciated as i agree there
may be some interesting overlaps.

Cheers Paul

On Jan 9, 9:36 am, "Song, Stephen" <stephen.s...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> Happy New Year.   AFAIK we don't have any Village Telco implementation
> in Rwanda.  I do know some of the people implementing OpenMRS
> (http://www.openmrs.org) in rural Rwanda, for which there may be some
> interesting overlaps, if you would like an introduction.
>
> Cheers... Steve
>

> On 8 January 2012 11:12, Paul Colmer <p...@paulcolmer.co.za> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > Hi guys,
>
> > After Terry's pic's of the floating village in north Vietnam i was
> > happy to find that they had implemented the OLPC (one laptop per
> > child) policy. In conversation over xmas i found out that this is
> > active in Rwanda ( Africa) as we speak. A friend of mine has fallen in
> > love with the VT concept and will be in Rwanda +/- 2 weeks and one off
> > his meetings will be with his buddy who runs the OLPC project. The
> > feedback i get is that the country is stable, has a commited president
> > that supports upliftment and has full backing of all international
> > funding. He believes that the VT could be a Godsend there, so my
> > question is, do we have any active VT projects there already ?  Is
> > there a base or do we start from scratch ?
>
> > Happy New year to all and any feedback appreciated
>
> > Paul
>
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