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An Innovation to Help Underprivileged Kids

Prepared and Presented by Dr. Haggen So

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How to start a Good Startup?

Solve an Important Problem

With a New SolutionA Great Idea

Marketing

$$$ Funding $$$

One Laptop Per Child (OLPC)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/olpcasia/4033678409/

Poverty

Kids

The Problem

Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day;

show him how to catch fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.The Solution

Education

TechnologyThe Solution

Dynabook
1972, Alan Kay

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dynabook.png CC BY-SA

One Laptop per Child$100 Laptop, 2006

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:XO-Beta1-mikemcgregor-2.jpg CC BY

Nicholas Negroponte of MIT

One Laptop per ChildFigure Head

http://laptop.org/about/people/negroponte CC BY

Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-M77C2ejTw

The kids keep the laptops.

Focus on early education.

No one gets left out.

Connection to the Internet.

Free to grow and adopt.

5 Principles

Kids learning by doingwith XOsin GroupsSocial Constructivism

1. The kids keep the laptops.3. No one gets left out.

4. Connection

Video

Walter Bender 3:24

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jj6awWWLoN0

Education in the Third World

Being both a learner and a teacher

Being social

Being expressive3 Objectives

Memorize

Social Constructivism

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/File:Memorize_play.png CC BY-SA

Memorize

Social Constructivism

http://wikieducator.org/File:Kos-olpc-lessonres-4.jpg CC BY-SA

Turtle Art

http://wiki.laptop.org/images/5/5c/TA-Sierpinski.png CC BY

Python

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/File:Captura_pantalla_de_%22Pippy_Activity_pizza%22.png CC BY-SA

The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0).

The freedom to study how the program works, and change it to make it do what you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.

Free SoftwareOpen Source

The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor (freedom 2).

The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements (and modified versions in general) to the public, so that the whole community benefits (freedom 3). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.

Free SoftwareOpen Source

Children can legally change the software and the content

Children can contribute

Essential to Social Constructivism

Free/Open SourceFree Content

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has given a $1 million award to the Veria Central Public Library in Veria, Greece.

Gates Foundation gives $1M to Greek library

http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2010/08/09/daily33.html

Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) will provide the library with donated software and technology training curriculum.

Gates Foundation (Cont')

http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2010/08/09/daily33.html

Should the Gates Foundation Support Linux and Apple Computers in Public Libraries?

Phil Shapiro

Criticism

http://www.pcworld.com/article/171291/Should_the_Gates_Foundation_Support_Linux_and_Apple_Computers_in_Public_Libraries.html

Solve an Important ProblemWith a Great Solution

Marketing

$$$ Funding $$$Startup Revisit

AMD

Google

Marvell Technology Group

Red Hat

Quanta

and more Corporations

and Individuals

Funding

2.4 Million Laptop Worldwide

Peru 860,000Uruguay 510,000Rwanda 110,000Australia 4,400Deployment

Asia Pacific HQ

is in

Hong Kong

One Laptop Per Child

2009 Sichuan

http://www.flickr.com/photos/olpcasia/4033678409/

2009 Bhutan

http://www.flickr.com/photos/laihiu/4045141021/ CC BY

2012 Local Deployment

http://www.flickr.com/photos/digilit/7933070662/

2013 OLPC Basecamp

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10101827562521972&set=oa.235028823324767&type=3&theater

Cambodia

Indonesia

Malaysia

Nepal

Pakistan

Vietnam

...

Other Deployment in APAC

So is it All Good?

Criticism

https://www.facebook.com/pages/WebOrganic-%E6%9C%89%E6%A9%9F%E4%B8%8A%E7%B6%B2/170870822976369

Slow in Progress

Non-Profit

OLPC XO

2008

X0-1AMD Geode 433MHz256MB RAM, 1GB Flash

2010

X0-1.5Via C7-M 400MHz1GB RAM, 4GB Flash

2012

X0-1.75Armada 610 (ARM) 800 MHz1GB RAM, 8GB Flash

2013X0-4(touch screen)Marvell PXA2128 (ARM) 1GHz2GB RAM, 8GB Flash

2008 Netbook

2010 iPad

2011 Android TabletCommercial Products

From Knowledge Providers

To Facilitators

Social Constructivism& Teachers

Video

Uruguay 13:00 and 21:15

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxMLDZN77uo

Being both a learner and a teacher

Being social

Being expressive3 Objectives

More Criticism

https://www.facebook.com/pages/WebOrganic-%E6%9C%89%E6%A9%9F%E4%B8%8A%E7%B6%B2/170870822976369

What did the Founder Say?

Evaluation

http://www.hyperpublic.org/schedule/

No evidence is found of effects on enrollment and test scores in Math and Language. Some positive effects are found, however, in general cognitive skills as measured by Ravens Progressive Matrices, a verbal fluency test and a Coding test.

Technology and Child Development: Evidence from the One Laptop per Child ProgramCristia J., Ibarrarn P., Cueto S., Santiago A., Severn E. 2012

Academic Research

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2032444

Perseverance

vs

Stubbornness

Startup Analogy

OLPC is an adventure

OLPC is transparent

Conclusion

Credits

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