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OLPC and Making Miles for Millennium
This document discusses the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative and Gertie and Harrie's mission to support it. The key points are: 1. Gertie and Harrie aim to support OLPC through public relations, operational assistance, tactical consultancy, and fundraising for local projects. 2. OLPC designs and distributes a low-cost, rugged laptop for children in developing countries. The laptop is optimized for power efficiency, connectivity, and sustainability in challenging environments. 3. Implementing OLPC faces challenges regarding infrastructure, costs, distribution, and ensuring effective educational integration. Gertie and Harrie hope to help address these challenges and enable more children to benefit from the program.
OLPC and Making Miles for Millennium
- 1. Making Miles forMillennium 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?
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- 7. Education and OLPC Suppliesand 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 ourroute
- 9. Goal of ourtrip “Enlarge childrens chances of getting an equal chance in life”
- 10. Our contribution • PublicRelations: 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
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- 13. Intel with a$280 laptop
- 14. and ASUS witha $400 laptop...
- 15. he has adream... 4. Filosophy of One Laptop Per Child
- 21. It’s an educationalproject, 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 isit?
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- 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)
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- 33. • The laptoplifetime 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… • 7.5inch 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!
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- 44. 6. Implementation • Peru(200.000) • Uruguay (100.000) • Mongolia (20.000) • India • Mexico (50.000) • Filipines, Nigeria, Ethopia and many others
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- 46. Challenges • Infrastructure – Power –Connectivity • Political uncertainty • Physical environment • Effective distribution • OLPC • Cost
- 47. … about theprice… • 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) businessmodel.. • 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?.. • Allchildren who get an XO will need training! • Content • Training of teachers
- 51. 8. How toproceed? • 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 ourtrip “Enlarge childrens chances of getting an equal chance in life”
- 54. Thanks to • JimGettys • Karin Dalziel • Didier Donsez • Ian Howard