As someone in her third year of CSG’s OLPC program, my studies have become more independent, allowing me to dive into exactly what interests and inspires me the most. This past summer, I had the amazing experience of traveling to Ghana for 23 days to bring and install technology, including three “Internet-in-a-Box” (IIAB) systems, which are essentially digital libraries. Internet-in-a-Box provides people access to educational sites such as Khan Academy, Wikipedia, and Project Gutenberg who do not have access to the “real” Internet. I spent most of my time in Ghana teaching students and teachers alike how to use this technology to enhance their educations. For more information about my work in Ghana, feel free to visit the daily blog that I kept during my stay at http://technologyforghana.weebly.com/.
After returning from Ghana, one of my lingering questions was how I would best be able to continue my work with IIAB from Columbus, OH. In response to that question, I have decided to use my unique experience installing and teaching IIAB in Ghana to create a handbook on how to set up an Internet-in-a-Box system from start-to-finish, based on what I learned through my work (what went right, what went wrong, etc.). The hope is that this handbook will teach others how to to install and teach Internet-in-a-Box on their own. The closer Internet-in-a-Box comes to being a plug and play device, the easier it will be to install this technology in all parts of the world so that many people can benefit from it. My handbook is still very much in the works, but I have a working draft of many pages, and I am excited to see where it ends up!
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