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Technology Based Social VenturesLessons from the FieldAssociate Professor Sameer VermaSocial and Technological Entrepreneurship Program at SF State (STEPS)TRANSCRIPT
Sameer Verma, Ph.D.Technology-based Social
Ventures: Lessons from the field
Presentation:Social and Technological Entrepreneurship
at SF State (STEPS) Initiative
Sameer Verma, Ph.D.Associate ProfessorInformation Systems DepartmentSan Francisco State UniversitySan Francisco, CA 94132 USA
Technology Based Social Ventures: Lessons from the field
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 ThailandSee http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Thailand/Ban_Samkha
Khairat school is India's pilot site.See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_India
Ethopia
http://www.reactivated.net/weblog/archives/2008/10/olpcethiopiaupdates/
Cameroonhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/olpc/3110907018/in/set72157611290673682/
Afghanistan refugee camp, Pakistan http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Pakistan/Atlas_School
Solomon Islandshttp://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Solomon_Islands
1.2 million + See Google Maps
Deployments worldwide
Also see: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Property:Number_of_manufactured_laptops
● Free/Open Source Software...● Cute/rugged laptop...
● Smart kids everywhere!
hook, line & sinker
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
● 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
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Bhagmalpur
What's a laptop?
Under a tree...
Bhagmalpur photos
Bhagmalpur Schoolhttp://www.zooomr.com/photos/sameerverma/sets/40063/
Bhagmalpur Villagehttp://www.zooomr.com/photos/sameerverma/sets/40075/
Jamaica
OLPC Headquarters 1 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Little green machines...
CostElectricityNetworksContent
LanguagesPedagogy
AgeSecurity
TheftAppropriateness
...
The challenges
Cost
US $140 at the factoryMy Lenovo Thinkpad cost me > US $2500
Electricity
Nontraditional sources...
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
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Product_News#Solar_Panels
5 Watt/14Volt panel
Networks
Offline technologyRise of the Sneakernets
Content
Open content standards (SCORM, IMSCP)
Creative CommonsOffline 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. Assamese2. Bengali3. Bodo4. Dogri5. Gujarati6. Hindi7. Kannada8. Kashmiri
9. Konkani10. Maithili11. Malayalam12. Manipuri13. Marathi14. Nepali15. Oriya16. Punjabi
17. Sanskrit 18. Santhali 19. Sindhi 20. Tamil 21. Telugu 22. Urdu
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, Sindhi, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Solomon Islands Pidgin, Sotho, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Templates, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uyghur, Vietnamese, Walloon, Wolof, Yoruba, pseudo L10n
Approx. 90+ languages
Tutorial:http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/452
Translate:http://translate.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
Speaker
Rotate screen
Keyboard
Mouse pad
Microphone
Antenna
Camera
Gamepad
Power
Battery
USB
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 is still unconnected. Not every one has 24/7 Internet access.
Sameer Verma
http://www.flickr.com/photos/olpc/3011271194/