1. Making Miles for Millennium
Gertie Clabbers and Harrie Vollaard
24 May – 1 December 2008

3. Agenda
1. Our mission
2. Trends
3. Competitors
4. Filosophy of One Laptop Per Child
5. What is it?
6. Timeline
7. Implementation
8. How to proceed?

5. The Millennium goals

6. LAPTOP PER CHILD

7. Education and OLPC
Supplies and prior conditions which are
neccesary for good education. It focuses on
how modern tools can be integrated in a
school system in a cheap but sustainable way.
It is not a laptop project but an educational
project

8. OLPC and our route

9. Goal of our trip
“Enlarge childrens chances of
getting an equal chance in life”

10. Our contribution
• Public Relations: We create publicity for OLPC.
• Operational: We help at project level.
• Tactical: We deliver consultancy at the projects.
• Finance: We generate funds for the local projects.

11. 2. Trends
• Smaller
• Quicker
• Collaboration
• Always online
• Mobility
Ultra Mobile PC’s

12. 3. Competitors

13. Intel with a $280 laptop

14. and ASUS with a $400 laptop...

15. he has a dream...
4. Filosophy of One Laptop Per Child

21. It’s an educational project,
not a laptop project

28. OLPC
• Non-profit organization
• Founded by Nicholas Negroponte, cofounder
of the MIT
• Design the OLPC, find sponsors and deals with
the government

29. 5 What is it?

30. Cheap

31. • Large volume
• No sales and marketing force
• Display energy consumption
• Direct distribution
• Standardized
• Low cost architecture
• Linux and Open source software
• Optimized software
• Power management (about 10% of typical
laptop)

32. Sustainable

33. • The laptop lifetime is 5 years or 2.5 times
longer than a typical laptop
• Half the size and weight of a typical laptop
• Goal: not a single XO laptop should end up in a
landfill

35. Some specifications…
• 7.5 inch diagonal screen at 1200x900 (200 dpi)
• 800x600 in grayscale
– Sunlight readable!
• Wi-fi, USB(x3), mic, speakers, camera, SD
• Screen rotates to tablet mode
• Water and dirt resistant keyboard
– walk in the rain with it!

43. 5 Timeline

44. 6. Implementation
• Peru (200.000)
• Uruguay (100.000)
• Mongolia (20.000)
• India
• Mexico (50.000)
• Filipines, Nigeria, Ethopia and many others

45. 7. Implementation

46. Challenges
• Infrastructure
– Power
– Connectivity
• Political uncertainty
• Physical environment
• Effective distribution
• OLPC
• Cost

47. … about the price…
• One Laptop Per Nigerian child would be 73%
of the entire governmental income and One
Laptop Per Argentinean child would be half of
the non-salary education budget. Countries
like Rwanda or Nepal have no hope to afford
even $100 per child out of their own national
budgets.
(2006 figures)

48. …and about the (real) costs….
• Laptop cost
• Training
• Software maintenance
• Hardware maintenance
• Internet connection – satellite, mobile...
• Estimated about 978$ - 5years
(2006 figures)

49. …the (2007) business model..
• G1 G1 Program
Why not G1- G100/1000?
• Budget for development
• Non-profits means that profits may not be
distributed to investors, so a non-profit
doesn't have shareholders

50. …what else?..
• All children who get an XO will need
training!
• Content
• Training of teachers

51. 8. How to proceed?
• Piloting in different countries
• Sugar independend of device
• Improved interface
• Improved distribution
• Lower cost (75 $ in 2010)
• Framework for implementation
– Training, content etc.

52. Goal of our trip
“Enlarge childrens chances of
getting an equal chance in life”

54. Thanks to
• Jim Gettys
• Karin Dalziel
• Didier Donsez
• Ian Howard