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Social Justice and Equity through Information
This document summarizes a presentation about social justice and equity through information and technology. It discusses how free and open source software can help increase access to information globally. It provides examples of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative that aims to provide low-cost laptops to children in developing countries around the world. Specific examples of OLPC programs in countries like India, Jamaica, Afghanistan and partnerships with San Francisco State University are mentioned. The document advocates that technologies like OLPC can help more of the world gain access to education and information.
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- 1. Social Justice andEquity through Information Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor Information Systems Department San Francisco State University San Francisco, CA 94132 USA Presented to: http://slideshare.net/sverma Unless noted otherwise
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- 3. Teach Computer Networksand Databases, Media Creation, Content Management and Delivery. Free and Open Source, Creative Commons, Licensing, Collaborative Methodologies. IT Strategy, Compliance, IT Audit, Governance, Identity Management.
- 4. Research Diffusion and Adoptionof Innovative Technologies
- 5. Service The Commons Initiativeat SF State http://commons.sfsu.edu
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- 7. The pieces mustfit Lego http://www.flickr.com/photos/bdesham/2432400623/
- 8. Rural and Remote Bhagmalpur(भागमलपुर) village, District Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh
- 9. Children and Learning Mira and Maya
- 10. Social Justice Equity P Supply Chain C You are here
- 11. Going Digital Books Music Movies Television … Conversation
- 12. Access to Information Produce Consume Can the consumer also become the producer?
- 13. Approximately thirty percentof the world is on the Internet
- 14. Can Free andOpen Source Software ease the flow of information? P Supply Chain C
- 15. Can Free andOpen Source Software create a feedback loop? Produce Consume
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- 17. The Commons Initiative http://commons.sfsu.edu
- 19. OLPC San Francisco Founderand Chief Organizer
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- 21. Mission OLPC's mission isto empower the world's poorest children through education We aim to provide each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop. To this end, we have designed hardware, content and software for collaborative, joyful, and self-empowered learning. With access to this type of tool, children are engaged in their own education, and learn, share, and create together. They become connected to each other, to the world and to a brighter future.
- 22. Worldwide 40+countries, 30+ languages, 3 million laptops, 350+ applications
- 23. Where no computershave gone before...
- 24. School Galadima, AbujaCity, Nigeria See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Galadima
- 25. Samkha village locatedin the suburbs of northern Thailand See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Thailand/Ban_Samkha
- 26. Khairat school isIndia's pilot site. See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_India
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- 29. Afghanistan refugee camp,Pakistan http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Pakistan/Atlas_School
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- 38. Australia Australia. See http://laptop.org.au
- 39. West Bank, Palestine.UN Relief and Works Agency See http://laptop.org/en/children/countries/mideast.shtml
- 40. Deployments worldwide 3 million + See Google Maps Also see: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Property:Number_of_manufactured_laptops
- 41. Sugar http://sugarlabs.org Can we learn to learn?
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- 47. 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, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Punjabi, Quechua, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Tutorial: Sindhi, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Solomon Islands Pidgin, Sotho, Spanish, http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/452 Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Templates, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uyghur, Translate: Vietnamese, Walloon, Wolof, Yoruba, pseudo L10n http://translate.sugarlabs.org/ Approx. 100+ languages
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- 49. OLPC San Francisco Afghanistan Armenia Haiti Honduras India Jamaica Madagascar Pakistan Philippines Senegal http://olpcsf.org South Africa Uganda Tuva San Francisco
- 50. I work directlywith... Afghanistan Armenia Haiti Honduras India Jamaica Madagascar Pakistan Philippines Senegal http://olpcsf.org South Africa Uganda Tuva San Francisco
- 51. Bhagmalpur, India
- 52. August Town, Jamaica
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- 54. Challenges Cost Electricity Network Language Repair Maintenance Theft Cultural Impact Curriculum … ...
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- 56. OLPC and SanFrancisco State University
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- 60. SFSU Lending Library ● Library Research Commons has 10 XO laptops ● Loan to students, staff and faculty ● You get: – XO Laptop – Charger – Instructions ● Take one to class ● Take one home ● Join the community! ● http://olpcsf.org
- 61. One Laptop perChild San Francisco Community Summit 2012 Hosted by San Francisco State University http://olpcsf.org/summit
- 70. Will the entireworld have access to information? We hope so.
- 71. Education Technology Outreach
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- 76. TV Time ● OLPC Mission Part 1 ● OLPC Mission Part 2 ● Web - La Sierra ● Web - La Selva ● Plan Ceibal ● Ideas for Good - OLPC Australia ● OLPC Australia in Action ● OLPC San Francisco Interviews
- 78. http://creativecommons.org All photos can be found at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/olpc/ under a Creative Commons license -0- XO Bridge: Chris Willis and Mike Lee http://www.flickr.com/photos/curiouslee/4925323996/