Technology-based Social Ventures: Lessons from the field
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The document discusses the mission and initiatives of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project aimed at providing affordable, connected laptops to impoverished children for improved education. It highlights deployments in various countries, challenges faced, and the importance of community involvement in supporting technology-based social ventures. It also emphasizes the role of low-cost technology in enhancing learning opportunities worldwide.
Technology-based Social Ventures: Lessons from the field
- 1. Technology-based Social Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Ventures: Lessons from the field
- 2. Technology Based Social Ventures: Lessons from the field Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Presentation: Associate Professor Social and Technological Entrepreneurship Information Systems Department at SF State (STEPS) Initiative San Francisco State University San Francisco, CA 94132 USA Available online at http://slideshare.net/sverma
- 3. Disclaimer: I do not work for OLPC. I am only a volunteer!
- 4. To create educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, lowcost, lowpower, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, selfempowered learning. —OLPC Mission Statement, It's an education project, not a laptop project. —Nicholas Negroponte,
- 5. The Prophet Children Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. -kahlil gibran
- 6. July 2007 The first time I actually saw the OLPC XO laptop.
- 8. School Galadima, Abuja City, Nigeria See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Galadima
- 9. Samkha village located in the suburbs of northern Thailand See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Thailand/Ban_Samkha
- 12. Ethopia http://www.reactivated.net/weblog/archives/2008/10/olpcethiopiaupdates/
- 15. Afghanistan refugee camp, Pakistan http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Pakistan/Atlas_School
- 23. Deployments worldwide 1.2 million + See Google Maps Also see: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Property:Number_of_manufactured_laptops
- 24. hook, line & sinker ● Free/Open Source Software... ● Cute/rugged laptop... ● Smart kids everywhere!
- 25. India http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Khairat_school
- 27. Khairat school is India's first pilot site. See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_India
- 29. Khairat Photos http://www.zooomr.com/photos/sameerverma/sets/40064/
- 30. Bhagmalpur project http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Bhagmalpur ● Location: ● Village: Bhagmalpur ● District: Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh ● Railway Station: Shahganj ● Bus Stop: Banuwadeeh ● School: ● Classes: 1 to 8 class ● Children: 1087 ● Teachers: 11 ● Internet: none ● Computers: none
- 31. What's a laptop?
- 32. Under a tree...
- 33. Bhagmalpur photos Bhagmalpur School http://www.zooomr.com/photos/sameerverma/sets/40063/ Bhagmalpur Village http://www.zooomr.com/photos/sameerverma/sets/40075/
- 34. Jamaica
- 37. OLPC Headquarters 1 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- 39. The challenges Cost Electricity Networks Content Languages Pedagogy Age Security Theft Appropriateness ...
- 40. Cost US $140 at the factory My Lenovo Thinkpad cost me > US $2500
- 41. Electricity Nontraditional sources...
- 42. Yo Yo Charger http://www.potenco.com/products
- 43. Hand Crank Charger http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Peripherals/Hand_Crank
- 44. Pedal power OLPC Afghanistan http://www.olpc.af/images/HPM/dscf1324.jpg
- 45. Solar Panel 5 Watt/14Volt panel http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Product_News#Solar_Panels
- 46. Moo power... http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Cow_Power
- 47. Networks Offline technology Rise of the Sneakernets
- 48. Content Open content standards (SCORM, IMSCP) Creative Commons Offline Wikipedia 1.6 million books from the Internet Archive
- 49. Language Diversity ● India: 28 states and 7 union territories – The Constitution of India recognizes 22 languages 1. Assamese 9. Konkani 17. Sanskrit 2. Bengali 10. Maithili 18. Santhali 3. Bodo 11. Malayalam 19. Sindhi 4. Dogri 12. Manipuri 20. Tamil 5. Gujarati 13. Marathi 21. Telugu 6. Hindi 14. Nepali 22. Urdu 7. Kannada 15. Oriya 8. Kashmiri 16. Punjabi
- 50. Languages Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Aymara, Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa Melayu, Basque, Bengali, Bengali (India), Bislama, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Hong Kong), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dari, Dutch, Dzongkha, English, English (South African), English (US), Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, French (Canada), Friulian, Fula, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Igbo, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Khmer, Kinyarwanda, Korean, Kreyol, Macedonian, Malayalam, Maltese, Marathi, Marovo, Mongolian, Nauruan, Nepali, Norwegian, Norwegian Bokmål, Papiamento, Papua New Guinea Pidgin (Tok Pisin), Pashto, Persian, Polish, Tutorial: Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Punjabi, http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/452 Quechua, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Sindhi, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Translate: Solomon Islands Pidgin, Sotho, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Templates, http://translate.sugarlabs.org/ Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uyghur, Vietnamese, Walloon, Wolof, Yoruba, pseudo L10n Approx. 90+ languages
- 51. Pedagogy http://www.sugarlabs.org/
- 52. school...to go
- 53. Educational device or trojan horse? Surprise! Its a REAL computer. It can do REAL computer things!
- 54. Laptop can also be a: ● Phone ● Healthcare monitor ● Microfinance platform ● Anthropological documention platform
- 55. OLPC XO1 Antenna Microphone Camera Speaker Rotate screen USB Keyboard Mouse pad Gamepad Power Battery
- 56. OLPC San Francisco Bay Area http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_SanFranciscoBayArea http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpcsf
- 57. OLPCSF Deployments ● Exchange of ideas, plans, content, etc. ● Deployments – Afghanistan (Carol Ruth Silver) – Jamaica (Sameer Verma/Univ. of the West Indies) – Madagascar (June Kleider) – India (Humaira Mahi/Sameer Verma) – Senegal (Drew and LickWilmerding Schools) – South Africa (EduWeavers) – San Francisco (Starr King Elementary)
- 60. In the quad...
- 62. OLPCSF at SFSU Downtown Center
- 63. SFSU Lending Library ● New! (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/SFSU_Lending_Library) ● Library Media Services has 10 XO laptops – Loan to students, staff and faculty – HSS 127 – You get: ● XO Laptop ● Charger ● Instructions ● Join the community!
- 64. OLPCSF and SF State University ● Meets once a month at SFSU Down Town Center. – See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_SanFranciscoBayArea ● IMSA (student association) helps with organizing meetings, donation drives, translation jams – http://imsa.sfsu.edu/ ● Engineering student started OLPC SF XO Repair Center – See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_SF_Repair ● Internships? ● Volunteers? ● Course projects? ● More...
- 65. How can you help? ● Educators – http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Educators ● Translators – http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Localization – http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/452 ● Developers – http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Developer ● Getting involved – http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Getting_involved_in_OLPC ● Sugar – http://sugarlabs.org
- 66. Mailing lists ● Educators – http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/educators ● Software Developers – General development ● http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel – Sugar UI ● http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar All mailing lists are at http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/
- 67. Community lists ● Everyone – http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots – http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpcopen ● OLPC San Francisco – http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpcsf
- 69. About the Cover Photo This photo was taken in Bhagmalpur, India on November 3, 2008. I was trying to connect to the Internet using a cell phone. This was the first time a computer from Bhagmalpur had connected to the Internet...ever. I had to go to the roof of the house, where I could get a good cell phone signal, but we had no electricity, so I had to do all this in the light of a kerosene lantern. 5.1 billion + of the world's population http://www.flickr.com/photos/olpc/3011271194/ is still unconnected. Not every one has 24/7 Internet access. Sameer Verma