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Over at OLPCNews they are carrying a two part interview with OLPC Oceania’s Michael Hutak and Ian Thomson, OLPC/RICS Coordinator, Secretariat of the Pacific Community. They take a look at the efforts to date in the pacific region and talk about what is to come next. The discussion includes a fair bit on the strategy of deployment, and contains some interesting numbers.

If you want further info on the nine pilots being run in various countries from Papua New Guinea, Niue to Nauru, check out part one of this interview.

CORRECTION: This article incorrectly detailed a deployment in Fiji. It was supposed to read “Papua New Guinea”.

According to The Cook Islands Herald, The Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea has announced this week that his country will begin an OLPC XO trial of some description with the ultimate goal of a multi-year, multi-million dollar rollout. If so, PNG is following hot on the heels of Niue and The Solomon Islands.

More to follow…

BuzzMoo.com has been off the air during the time I’ve had the opportunity to play around with OLPC Inc’ XO laptop, and I intend to make up for lost time by providing good OLPC related resources here. There’s plenty to say, but I’ll just start with some links to some bits and pieces I’ve come across recently.

If you’re interested in the recent OLPC initiatives in the Pacific region, from an Australian perspective you most definitely want to check out Pia Waugh’s recent post on her time in Niue where she helped with an XO rollout. If you’re interested in anything OLPC Australia specific, you should most definitely bookmark her blog!

Pia, OLPC and Openness advocate, has also recently published “Foundations of Openness“, a paper that attempts to provide what I guess you’d call an integrity assessment tool for anyone developing resources under the open source philosophy. It’s an interesting read and is directly relevant to core ideas behind the OLPC project.

Also, a decent short article looking at the OLPC through American eyes has just popped up here. It’s worth a read too. Stay tuned for plenty more OLPC XO news!