Former project manager of the One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) initiative Jud Lohmeyer says that he had envisioned using the “summer” camps hosted by the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports to distribute 12,000 laptops to students this year.
“The single largest means of distributing laptops within OLPF was through the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports [CYS] summer camps. I was preparing to execute the delivery of 12,000 laptops during the 2011 CYS summer camps across the country,” Lohmeyer said via email, in response to questions sent by this newspaper. “We were coordinating with the Ministry of Education to hold summer camps in communities that would have ICT labs in their local schools by September. Students in those schools would [have] been contacted this last February and invited to participate in the CYS summer camp of which one of the sessions each day would be a OLPF training session,” he said.
The OLPF was officially launched in January, but
