World Class: Flintknapping the Glowing Rectangle in the New Ubiquity Era
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A presentation given at Design for Mobile 2010 about the possibilities of leveraging the enormous global distribution of mobile devices for educational purposes.
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World Class: Flintknapping the Glowing Rectangle in the New Ubiquity Era
- 2. World Class Flintknapping the Glowing Rectangle in the Recent Ubiquity Era
- 3. Oldowan 1 million years Global Distribution
- 4. Acheulian Hand Axe 1.5 million years Global Distribution
- 7. The New Ubiquity Era
- 8. Most aggressive adoption is in ‘developing nations’
- 9. Most aggressive adoption is in ‘developing nations’
- 10. Most aggressive adoption is in ‘developing nations’
- 11. Most aggressive adoption is in ‘developing nations’ © Copyright D G Mackean
- 20. Preadaptation
- 21. The Innovative Use of Mobile Applications in East Africa (May 2010) Total cost of ownership and use Marketing Scalability Need to shift away from pilots and towards “comprehensive service delivery programs” - focus on usability, collaboration, documenting lessons learned
- 22. Innovative Approaches + Ag $ ?
- 23. +Medical Grameen Founda,on: App Lab Mobile Technology for Community Health (MoTeCH): Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health / Ghana Health Service Improve prenatal and neonatal care in rural Ghana
- 25. AgFarming Grameen Founda,on: App Lab Community worker with smartphone travels to farms. Looks up farm advice. Records farm data
- 26. AgFarming Tata: mKRISHI
- 27. $ Banking M‐Pesa Banking via mobile phone No local bank branches Local village ‘shops’ Cash‐based economy
- 28. ?Education Janala Bangladesh Hundreds of 3 minute audio lessons ‘Essen,al English‘ What are you wearing to the party tonight? You look nice! What is this shirt made of? Where can I buy a toothbrush? "The growth of mobile is clearly crea-ng an opportunity to provide access to educa-on in a way Over 1 million downloads simply not possible before." Sara Chamberlain, BBCWorld Service Trust
- 29. ?Education Celedu Mission: To provide a mobile plaYorm for literacy and language educa,on through: a game interface to distribute language‐ learning content a scalable plaYorm to other educa,onal applica,ons an ini,al launch in India Over 1 million downloads
- 30. Within the next three years, another billion people will begin to make regular use of cell phones, con,nuing the fastest adop,on of a new technology in history. Soon, this next billion will make its voice heard—and connect to the global informa,on network. This will unleash a wave of entrepreneurship, collabora,on and wealth crea,on, turning the newly connected into a powerful force in the world economy. The kind of world that emerges from this transforma,on will depend on our ability to recognize it as an opportunity.
- 39. Flintknapping in the New Ubiquity
Editor's Notes
- michael horn mentioned ubiquity era from MS ‘Being Human’ document.
- Ubiquity Era One Carry Principle - (barbara) mobile versatile= ubiquitous Hobo habilis 2.5 mya 500cc
- flintknapping hacking/modifying Oldowan more versatile more ubiquitous
- Upper paleolithic/ Mesolithic The Triumph of Flintknapping blade technology/ microliths the ultimate platform truly mobile pure versatility/compound tools
- Art Extinction
- 6.5 billion people 5 billion cell phone/SIM cards subscriptions world wide 6/10 people in the world 1/3-2/3 Africa has a mobile plan
- launch in 3Q 2003 best selling consumer electronics device in the world. Nokia’s one billionth phone sold was an 1100 in Nigeria GSM mobile phone with SMS messaging with predictive text, sealed keypad, vibration alert, torch, calculator, stopwatch and non-slip sides. - inexpensive hardware ($20 cell phone) -less complex infrastructure (Kenya/ Uganda have mobile/ braodband networks rivaling the US - support iPhone/ Blackberry) - alternative energy solutions (We’re talking a quarter of a million towers that EACH consume 530 million gallons of diesel fuel each year … in India alone.)
- - alternative energy solutions - wind and solar
- Pizza effect: We’re talking a quarter of a million towers that EACH consume 530 million gallons of diesel fuel each year … in India alone.
- accelerate development by skipping inferior, less efficient, more expensive or more polluting technologies and industries and move directly to more advanced ones. It is proposed that through leapfrogging developing countries can avoid environmentally harmful stages of development and do not need to follow the polluting development trajectory of industrialized countries.[2] The adoption of solar energy technologies in developing countries are examples of where countries do not repeat the mistakes of highly industrialized countries in creating an energy infrastructure based on fossil fuels, but "jump" directly into the Solar Age.[3] Jose Goldemberg
- Not just the Nokia 1100 - another leapfrog event with India’s ‘Touchscreen Tablet’ and OLPC’s OLPC XO tablet
- Not just the Nokia 1100 - another leapfrog event with India’s ‘Touchscreen Tablet’ and OLPC’s OLPC XO tablet
- Not just the Nokia 1100 - another leapfrog event with India’s ‘Touchscreen Tablet’ and OLPC’s OLPC XO tablet
- - need - communication technology vaccuum. Computers are really helpful!
- - need - communication technology vaccuum. Computers are really helpful!
- - need - communication technology vaccuum. Computers are really helpful!
- REVIEW: widely available platforms for information dissemination and interactive communication. all-in-one device that can be carried and used almost anywhere opportunity for businesses, organisations and governments to reach out and interact with clients and citizens. - useful applications - functional/ helpful - flexible technology. Even the simple Nokia 1100 provides many opportunities for innovative application.
- Despite these hardware leapfrog events, this is still the very beginning: India’s table - doesn’t exist. OLPC device - limited. And then there are facts like those in the Sida (Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency) Report: current state of mobile phone use and services in East Africa. Despite these challenges, we are witnessing a small revolution regarding new applications and services added to the mobile phone.
- AppLab seeks to engage with organizations, government entities and socially-minded companies interested in better understanding and meeting the needs of the poor. This can include application and business model development, information dissemination and information collection.
- Lack of physicians in rural areas Mobile tech to send queries, information (photos) to urban physicians for preliminary diagnostics. Partner with NGOs, phone companies, and medical associations
- there are about 110 million farmers in India. “If one expects on an average $1 fee per month, the potential would be $110 million per month of revenue from this market segment,” he said. “Handset sale potential is about $11 billion for GPS-enabled 2 megapixel handsets with a price tag of $100 per handset. If upfront subsidy is provided for sale of handset[s], an appropriate EMI component would be charged from customers of recovered through enhanced monthly payment. Additionally, payment charge back would have to be dovetailed with seasonal income patterns of farmers so that there is no hardship of payments on monthly basis.”
- Bangladesh's 50 million mobile users eager to learn English to improve their access to the global economy. More than two-thirds of people who use the beginners' service return, which is impressive considering the 5% "return rate" for mobile products in Bangladesh. The BBC said overall 39% of callers returned to Janala. An impressive majority of Bangladeshis – 84% – consider English essential to securing a good job and educating their children, according to a BBC survey.