Technology-based Social Ventures: Lessons from the field

Technology-based Social Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Ventures: Lessons from the field

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

Disclaimer: I do not work for OLPC. I am only a volunteer!

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,

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

July 2007 The first time I actually saw the OLPC XO laptop.

The next generation...

School Galadima, Abuja City, Nigeria See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Galadima

Samkha village located in the suburbs of northern Thailand See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Thailand/Ban_Samkha

Khairat school is India's pilot site. See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_India

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Ulaanbaatar

Ethopia http://www.reactivated.net/weblog/archives/2008/10/olpcethiopiaupdates/

Ghana http://www.flickr.com/photos/olpc/2921143251/

Cameroon http://www.flickr.com/photos/olpc/3110907018/in/set72157611290673682/

Afghanistan refugee camp, Pakistan http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Pakistan/Atlas_School

Colombia http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Colombia

Peru http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Peru

Rwanda http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Rwanda

Iraq http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Iraq

Haiti http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Haiti

Solomon Islands http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Solomon_Islands

Nepal http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Nepal

Deployments worldwide 1.2 million + See Google Maps Also see: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Property:Number_of_manufactured_laptops

hook, line & sinker ● Free/Open Source Software... ● Cute/rugged laptop... ● Smart kids everywhere!

India http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Khairat_school

Resident artist!

Khairat school is India's first pilot site. See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_India

Khairat school is India's pilot site. See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_India

Khairat Photos http://www.zooomr.com/photos/sameerverma/sets/40064/

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

What's a laptop?

Under a tree...

Bhagmalpur photos Bhagmalpur School http://www.zooomr.com/photos/sameerverma/sets/40063/ Bhagmalpur Village http://www.zooomr.com/photos/sameerverma/sets/40075/

Jamaica

OLPC Headquarters 1 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Little green machines...

The challenges Cost Electricity Networks Content Languages Pedagogy Age Security Theft Appropriateness ...

Cost US $140 at the factory My Lenovo Thinkpad cost me > US $2500

Electricity Nontraditional sources...

Yo Yo Charger http://www.potenco.com/products

Hand Crank Charger http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Peripherals/Hand_Crank

Pedal power OLPC Afghanistan http://www.olpc.af/images/HPM/dscf1324.jpg

Solar Panel 5 Watt/14Volt panel http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Product_News#Solar_Panels

Moo power... http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Cow_Power

Networks Offline technology Rise of the Sneakernets

Content Open content standards (SCORM, IMSCP) Creative Commons Offline Wikipedia 1.6 million books from the Internet Archive

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

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

Pedagogy http://www.sugarlabs.org/

school...to go

Educational device or trojan horse? Surprise! Its a REAL computer. It can do REAL computer things!

Laptop can also be a: ● Phone ● Healthcare monitor ● Microfinance platform ● Anthropological documention platform

OLPC XO1 Antenna Microphone Camera Speaker Rotate screen USB Keyboard Mouse pad Gamepad Power Battery

OLPC San Francisco Bay Area http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_SanFranciscoBayArea http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpcsf

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)

OLPCSF resident expert

OLPCSF and SF State University

In the quad...

On the student union...

OLPCSF at SFSU Downtown Center

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!

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...

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

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/

Community lists ● Everyone – http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots – http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpcopen ● OLPC San Francisco – http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpcsf

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

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