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1. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor Information Systems Department San Francisco State University San Francisco, CA 94132 USA [email_address] http://verma.sfsu.edu Seminar, CB MIS Program University of the West Indies, Jamaica Creative commons license http://creativecommons.org/ One Laptop per Child: Upsetting the Information Pyramid hello! Unless noted otherwise

2. Classic MIS Pyramid http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_systems_%28discipline%29

3. The Internet

4. Can information flow like water? http://ltse.env.duke.edu/files/ltse/images/India%20Persian%20wheel%20irrigation%20Ganges%20Plain.jpg

5. Power battery http://www.flickr.com/photos/jommev/393200096/

6. A water “battery” http://www.flickr.com/photos/easyecoblog/4304158871/

7. Can we build information batteries?

8. ~ 70% unconnected http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm

9. Viva La Revolución Can we spark a paradigm shift by providing equitable access to information all over the world?

10. Somebody is finally thinking of the children! To create educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning. — OLPC Mission Statement, It's an education project, not a laptop project. — Nicholas Negroponte

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

12. in the beginning...

13. Must. Have. Laptop. (July 2007)

14. Give 1 Get 1 – Nov 2007

15. Next thing I know... De facto founder of OLPC San Francisco http://olpcsf.org

16. Then I run into this guy... Click here to learn more...

17. Next thing I know... De facto founder of OLPC Jamaica! http://olpcjamaica.org.jm

18. A tremendous “Thank you!” to the UWI community for making this happen. http://olpcjamaica.org.jm Providence Basic School, Kingston, Jamaica August Town Primary School, August Town, Jamaica

19. OLPC

20. Mission OLPC's mission is to 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.

21. Worldwide 40+ countries, 30+ languages, 2.2+ million laptops, 350+ applications

22. Where no computers have gone before...

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

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

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

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

27. Ethopia http://www.reactivated.net/weblog/archives/2008/10/olpc-ethiopia-updates/

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

29. Cameroon http://www.flickr.com/photos/olpc/3110907018/in/set-72157611290673682/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

38. Uruguay: Every primary school child has an XO. http://olpc-ceibal.blogspot.com/

39. postage stamps too!

40. 2.2 million XO laptops and counting See Google Maps Deployments worldwide Also see: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Property:Number_of_manufactured_laptops

41. A glimpse... Deployments

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

43. Resident artist!

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

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

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

48. District: Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh

49. Railway Station: Shahganj

51. Children: 1087

52. Teachers: 11

53. Internet: none

54. Computers: none http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Bhagmalpur

55. What's a laptop?

56. Under a tree...

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

58. Jamaica http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Jamaica

64. Maroantsetra, Madagascar http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Madagascar/Maroantsetra

66. Kandahar, Afghanistan

68. Keur Sadaro, Senegal http://www.extrasleepy.com/keursadaro.html

69. OLPC Headquarters 1 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts

70. Little green machines...

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

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

73. Electricity Non-traditional sources...

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

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

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

77. Solar Panel http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahlness/2850027972/sizes/o/in/set-72157603501402908/

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

79. Networks Offline Moodle Rise of the Sneakernets WWWOFFLE

80. Content Open content standards (SCORM, IMS-CP) Creative Commons Offline Wikipedia 1.6 million books from the Internet Archive

82. Languages Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Arabic (Syrian Arab Republic), Armenian, Aymara, Basque, Bengali, Bengali (India), Bislama, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Hong Kong), Chinese (Taiwan), Crioulo, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dari, Dutch, Dzongkha, English, English (South Africa), English (US), English (United Kingdom), Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, French (Canada), Friulian, Fula, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Igbo, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Khmer, Kinyarwanda, Korean, Kosraean (Kusaiean), Macedonian, Malagasy, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Marathi, Marovo, Mongolian, Moorish, Nauruan, Nepali, Norwegian, Norwegian Bokmal, Papiamento, Papua New Guinea Pidgin (Tok Pisin), Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Punjabi, Quechua, Romanian, Russian, Samoan, Serbian, Sindhi, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Solomon Islands Pidgin, Sotho, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Tongan, Turkish, Tuvaluan, Tzotzil, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uyghur, Vietnamese, Walloon, Wolof, Yoruba Tutorial: http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/452 Translate: http://translate.sugarlabs.org/ 100+ languages

83. Pedagogy Constructivism, Constructionism. Same difference? See http://www.sugarlabs.org/ for more.

85. No vendor lock-in on formats

86. No royalties on redistribution

87. No discrimination based on fields of endeavor

88. Scalable global model for software and content

89. Encourages a shared resources approach

90. Software methodologies lead to collaborative content creation.

92. Principle of "learning through doing"

94. Seymour Papert (constructionism)

95. Lego Mindstroms http://www.gizmowatch.com/entry/lego-mindstorms-nxt-robot-tailored-to-solve-sudoku-puzzles/

96. school...to go

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

99. Healthcare monitor (O 2 , pulse sensors)

101. Photos, birth/death records. http://blog.laptop.org/2009/04/08/low-cost-heart-rate-monitor/

102. OLPC XO Speaker Rotate screen Keyboard Mouse pad Microphone Antenna Camera Gamepad Power Battery USB

103. water “battery” information “battery”

104. XS: OLPC School Server The Internet in a Box

105. School environment Manage content Manage access Manage assessment

106. School Server

107. http://olpcmap.net

112. Slides made with the “free stuff” http://libreoffice.org