Explain in more depth the different issues at stake in OLPC

1. An Innovation to Help
Underprivileged Kids
Prepared and Presented
by Dr. Haggen So
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2. How to start a Good Startup?

3. A Great Idea
Solve an Important Problem
With a New Solution

4. Marketing

5. $$$ Funding $$$

6. One Laptop Per Child (OLPC)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/olpcasia/4033678409

7. The Problem
Poverty
Kids

8. The Solution
Give a man a fish,
and you feed him for a day;
show him how to catch fish,
and you feed him for a lifetime.

9. The Solution
Education
Technology

10. Dynabook
1972, Alan Kay
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dynabook.png CC BY-

11. One Laptop per Child
$100 Laptop, 2006
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:XO-Beta1-mikemcgregor-2.jpg CC BY

12. One Laptop per Child
Figure Head
Nicholas Negroponte of MIT
http://laptop.org/about/people/negroponte CC

13. Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-

14. 5 Principles
1.The kids keep the laptops.
2.Focus on early education.
3.No one gets left out.
4.Connection to the Internet.
5.Free to grow and adopt.

15. 1. The kids keep the laptops.
3. No one gets left out.
4. Connection
Kids learning by doing
with XOs
in Groups
↓
Social Constructivism

16. Video
Walter Bender 3:24
http://www.youtube.com/watch?

17. Education in the Third World

18. 3 Objectives
Being both a learner and a teacher
Being social
Being expressive

19. Social Constructivism
Memorize
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/File:Memorize_play.png CC BY-

20. Social Constructivism
Memorize
http://wikieducator.org/File:Kos-olpc-lessonres-4.jpg CC BY-

21. Turtle Art
http://wiki.laptop.org/images/5/5c/TA-Sierpinski.png CC BY

22. Python
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/File:Captura_pantalla_de_
%22Pippy_Activity_pizza%22.png CC BY-SA

23. Free Software
Open Source
The freedom to run the program, for any
purpose (freedom 0).
The freedom to study how the program works,
and change it to make it do what you wish
(freedom 1). Access to the source code is a
precondition for this.

24. Free Software
Open Source
The freedom to redistribute copies so you can
help your neighbor (freedom 2).
The freedom to improve the program, and
release your improvements (and modified
versions in general) to the public, so that the
whole community benefits (freedom 3). Access
to the source code is a precondition for this.

25. Free/Open Source
Free Content
Children can legally change the software and
the content
Children can contribute
Essential to Social Constructivism

26. Gates Foundation gives
$1M to Greek library
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
has given a $1 million award
to the Veria Central Public Library
in Veria, Greece.
http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2010/08/09/daily33.htm

27. Gates Foundation (Cont')
Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) will provide
the library with donated software
and technology training curriculum.
http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2010/08/09/daily33.htm

28. Criticism
Should the Gates Foundation
Support Linux and Apple Computers
in Public Libraries?
Phil Shapiro
http://www.pcworld.com/article/171291/Should_the_Gates_Foundation_Support
_Linux_and_Apple_Computers_in_Public_Libraries.html

29. Startup Revisit
Solve an Important Problem
With a Great Solution
Marketing
$$$ Funding $$$

30. Funding
AMD
Google
Marvell Technology Group
Red Hat
Quanta
and more Corporations
and Individuals

31. Deployment
2.4 Million Laptop Worldwide
Peru 860,000
Uruguay 510,000
Rwanda 110,000
Australia 4,400

32. One Laptop Per Child
Asia Pacific HQ
is in
Hong Kong

33. 2009 Sichuan
http://www.flickr.com/photos/olpcasia/4033678409

34. 2009 Bhutan
http://www.flickr.com/photos/laihiu/4045141021/ CC BY

35. 2012 Local Deployment
http://www.flickr.com/photos/digilit/7933070662

36. 2013 OLPC Basecamp
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?
fbid=10101827562521972&set=oa.235028823324767&type=3&theater

37. Other Deployment in APAC
Cambodia
Indonesia
Malaysia
Nepal
Pakistan
Vietnam
...

38. So is it All Good?

39. Criticism
https://www.facebook.com/pages/WebOrganic-%E6%9C
%89%E6%A9%9F%E4%B8%8A%E7%B6%B2/170870822976369

40. Non-Profit
Slow in Progress

41. OLPC XO
2008
X0-1
2010 X0-1.5
2012 X0-1.75
2013
X0-4
(touch
screen)
AMD Geode
256MB RAM,
433MHz
1GB Flash
Via C7-M
1GB RAM, 4GB
400MHz
Flash
Armada 610
1GB RAM, 8GB
(ARM) 800 MHz
Flash
Marvell
2GB RAM, 8GB
PXA2128 (ARM)
Flash
1GHz

42. Commercial Products
2008 Netbook
2010 iPad
2011 Android Tablet

43. Social Constructivism
& Teachers
From Knowledge Providers
To Facilitators

44. Video
Uruguay 13:00 and 21:15
http://www.youtube.com/watch?

45. 3 Objectives
Being both a learner and a teacher
Being social
Being expressive

46. More Criticism
https://www.facebook.com/pages/WebOrganic-%E6%9C
%89%E6%A9%9F%E4%B8%8A%E7%B6%B2/170870822976369

47. Evaluation
What did the Founder Say?
http://www.hyperpublic.org/schedule/

48. Academic Research
No evidence is found of effects on enrollment
and test scores in Math and Language. Some
positive effects are found, however, in general
cognitive skills as measured by Raven’s
Progressive Matrices, a verbal fluency test and a
Coding test.
Technology and Child Development: Evidence
from the One Laptop per Child Program
Cristia J., Ibarrarán P., Cueto S., Santiago A.,
Severín E. 2012
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2032444

49. Startup Analogy
Perseverance
vs
Stubbornness

50. Conclusion
OLPC is an adventure
OLPC is transparent

51. Credits
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