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-	~~#Measuring "child hope"--[[User:SvenAERTS\|SvenAERTS]] 22:46, 2 May 2012 (UTC)~~	+	'''Suggested links:'''
-	~~#Measuring "child comfort"--[[User:SvenAERTS\|SvenAERTS]] 22:46, 2 May 2012 (UTC)~~	+
-	~~#Measuring "child anxiety"--[[User:SvenAERTS\|SvenAERTS]] 22:46, 2 May 2012 (UTC)~~	+
-	~~#Measuring "self-esteem"--[[User:SvenAERTS\|SvenAERTS]] 22:46, 2 May 2012 (UTC)~~	+
-	~~#Measuring "reaching out capability"--[[User:SvenAERTS\|SvenAERTS]] 22:46, 2 May 2012 (UTC)~~	+
-	~~#Measuring "number of attempts of reaching out"--[[User:SvenAERTS\|SvenAERTS]] 22:46, 2 May 2012 (UTC)~~	+
-	~~#Measuring "number of successful attempts of reaching out"--[[User:SvenAERTS\|SvenAERTS]] 22:46, 2 May 2012 (UTC)~~	+
-	~~#Measuring "opportunity to outside school learning"--[[User:SvenAERTS\|SvenAERTS]] 22:46, 2 May 2012 (UTC)~~	+
-	~~#Measuring "outside school learning"--[[User:SvenAERTS\|SvenAERTS]] 22:46, 2 May 2012 (UTC)~~	+
-	~~#Measuring "opportunity to inside school learning"--[[User:SvenAERTS\|SvenAERTS]] 22:46, 2 May 2012 (UTC)~~	+
-	~~#Measuring "inside school learning"--[[User:SvenAERTS\|SvenAERTS]] 22:46, 2 May 2012 (UTC)~~	+
-	~~#Measuring "need for solution finding"--[[User:SvenAERTS\|SvenAERTS]] 22:46, 2 May 2012 (UTC)~~	+
-	~~#Measuring "solution finding"--[[User:SvenAERTS\|SvenAERTS]] 22:46, 2 May 2012 (UTC)~~	+
-	~~#Measuring "attempts for solution finding"--[[User:SvenAERTS\|SvenAERTS]] 22:46, 2 May 2012 (UTC)~~	+
-	~~#Measuring "competence in operating laptops in tasks related to core applications (like a word processor)"~~	+
-	~~#Measuring "competence in searching for information on the computer~~	+
-	~~#Measuring "need for reaching out"--[[User:SvenAERTS\|SvenAERTS]] 22:46, 2 May 2012 (UTC)~~	+
-	~~#Measuring "number of times a kid gets sick"--[[User:SvenAERTS\|SvenAERTS]] 22:46, 2 May 2012 (UTC)~~	+
-	~~#Measuring "number of attempts a kid reaches out to find a cure"--[[User:SvenAERTS\|SvenAERTS]] 22:46, 2 May 2012 (UTC)~~	+
-	~~#Measuring "number of successful attempts a kid reaches out and finds a cure"--[[User:SvenAERTS\|SvenAERTS]] 22:46, 2 May 2012 (UTC)~~	+
-	#Measuring the extend of reaching and bringing learning to the parents via the kids: establish by when about all kids are sleeping. If the laptop is still used then, it must be parents or older kids using the laptop. Same logging / data collection can be used as on the main page.--[[User:SvenAERTS\|SvenAERTS]] 22:46, 2 May 2012 (UTC)	+
-	~~#Measuring "parent involvement"~~	+
-	~~#Measuring "critical thinking"~~	+
-	~~#Measuring "creative thinking"~~	+
-	~~#Measuring "initiative"~~	+
-	~~#Measuring "discovery"~~	+
-	~~#Measuring "peer to peer teaching"~~	+
-	~~#Measuring "use of computers both at school and at home"~~	+
-	~~#Measuring "effects were found in general [[cognitive skills]]"~~	+
-	~~##Measuring "Attention Skills"~~	+
-	~~##Measuring "Sustained Attention~~	+
-	~~##Measuring "Selective Attention~~	+
-	~~##Measuring "Divided Attention: ...multi-tasking~~	+
-	~~#Measuring "Memory~~	+
-	~~##Measuring "Long-Term Memory~~	+
-	~~##Measuring "Short-Term / Working Memory~~	+
-	~~##Measuring "Logic and Reasoning~~	+
-	~~##Measuring "Auditory Processing~~	+
-	~~##Measuring "Visual Processing~~	+
-	~~##Measuring "Processing Speed~~	+
-	~~#Measuring "quality of the teachers"~~	+
-	##Measuring "the impact of teachers work in class on test scores" - "The fact that the test results show no impact may be interpreted as "the teachers work in class has no impact on test scores" -- something I am afraid is not far from the truth." extract from "An Alternative Reading of the independent IADB Study on Peru'~~s OLPC Implementation" 18 Apr 2012, by Oscar Becerra, the person responsible for Una Laptop por Niño for almost five years with over 400.000 XO~~'~~s implemented.~~	+
-	~~##Measuring "Number of Teachers that finished the extra trainings given"~~	+
-	~~##Measuring "Teacher Basic Math reasoning skills"~~	+
-	~~##Measuring "Teacher Evolved reading skills"~~	+
-	~~##Measuring "the extend teacher training was reinforced"~~	+
-	~~##Measuring "number of teachers completing the 8 hours on technical maintenance by teachers"~~	+
-	##Measuring "To what extend the education sector ability to attract the best of the best of the country versus the private sector or worse, maybe all leave the country and never come back" - [http://www.mckinseyonsociety.com/downloads/reports/Education/Worlds_School_Systems_Final.pdf this 2007 study by McKinsey] found that the world'~~s most improved school systems had in common their concern for teacher quality and getting the best people into teaching~~	+
-	~~##Measuring "To what extend the kids have been given more options for their future with the OLPC Educational Universal Education Effort"~~	+
-	~~#Measuring "ICT skills" - ICT skills had been identified as key ingredients for success by many organizations (see, for example, [http~~:~~//www.p21.org/storage/documents/P21_Report.pdf this report])~~	+
-	~~#Measuring "access and use of computers"~~	+
-	~~#Measuring "quality of instruction in class"~~	+
-	~~#Measuring "use of a word processor"~~	+
-	~~#Measuring "use of a calculator~~	+
-	~~#Measuring "playing games on a computer"~~	+
-	~~#Measuring "transferred a game you played on the computer into a game played outside"~~	+
-	~~#Measuring "transferred an out- or indoor game you found via the computer into a game you played with or without your friends"~~	+
-	~~#Measuring "playing music on a computer"~~	+
-	~~#Measuring "transferred music you played on the computer into music you played outside"~~	+
-	~~#Measuring "transferred an existing piece of music you found via the computer into music you played with or without your friends"~~	+
-	~~#Measuring "ability to integrate external stakeholders into educational efforts"~~	+
-	~~#Measuring "ability to integrate the XO computers into correct or desirable pedagogical practices"~~	+
-	~~#Measuring "ability to end rote learning and hitting kids"~~	+
-	#Measuring "ability to transfer ICT skills to other problems" ICT skills would be easily transferable to other platforms in the future since upgrading to new versions of Windows can be as complex as switching from Sugar to Windows	+
-	~~#Measuring "ability to protection against access to inappropriate content, because kids prefer to be busy with more interesting stuff"~~	+
-	~~#Measuring "intrinsic motivation towards school work,~~	+
-	~~#Measuring "intrinsic motivation towards attendance~~	+
-	~~#Measuring "intrinsic motivation towards homework~~	+
-	~~#Measuring "interest in school work"~~	+
-	~~#Measuring "pleasure in school work"~~	+
-	~~#Measuring "relation between effort and results obtained"~~	+
-	~~#Measuring "perceived competence for school work"~~	+
-	~~#Measuring "perceived importance of school work~~	+
-	~~#Measuring "creative stress"~~	+
-	~~#Measuring "perceived selection of what to do"~~	+
-	~~#Measuring "improved personal relations"~~	+
-	~~#Measuring "% of laptops malfunctioning"~~	+
-	~~#Measuring "% of laptops successfully repaired"~~	+
-	~~#Measuring "theft ratio"~~	+
-	~~#Measuring "theft ratio of XO~~'~~s to the national average of other small portable items"~~	+
-	~~#Measuring "perceived competence for school work" - "self-perceived school competence ... evidence of small negative effects" (p.16) I don~~'t agree with the implication of these negative effects as a decrease in self-esteem. What may be inferred is that children realize that they are not well prepared for school, a finding that is good if it motivates them to work harder to achieve what they want. What I found is that children in non-OLPC schools have extremely high perceived competence for school work, in spite of their dismal results, something the presence of the XO seemed to be correcting for good. Extract from "An Alternative Reading of the independent IADB Study on Peru'~~s OLPC Implementation" 18 Apr 2012, by Oscar Becerra, the person responsible for Una Laptop por Niño for almost five years with over 400.000 XO's implemented.~~	+
-	~~#Measuring "negative effects of home computer usage on grades" (like in the West when some kids spend too much time on irrelevant ict use)~~	+
-	~~#Measuring "IQ test results" improved in Ethiopian children who participated in an OLPC program as per [http://nina.hansen.socialpsychology.org/ study by Nina Hansen]~~	+
-	~~#Measuring "the extend to which Students became more critical of the schools system and expected more of it."~~	+

-	[[~~Category:Evaluation~~]]	+	# [[List of potentially useful Criteria to monitor and evaluate an OLPC implementation]]

List of potentially useful Criteria to monitor and evaluate an OLPC implementation

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#Measuring "child hope"--[[User:SvenAERTS|SvenAERTS]] 22:46, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
#Measuring "child comfort"--[[User:SvenAERTS|SvenAERTS]] 22:46, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
#Measuring "child anxiety"--[[User:SvenAERTS|SvenAERTS]] 22:46, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
#Measuring "self-esteem"--[[User:SvenAERTS|SvenAERTS]] 22:46, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
#Measuring "reaching out capability"--[[User:SvenAERTS|SvenAERTS]] 22:46, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
#Measuring "number of attempts of reaching out"--[[User:SvenAERTS|SvenAERTS]] 22:46, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
#Measuring "number of successful attempts of reaching out"--[[User:SvenAERTS|SvenAERTS]] 22:46, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
#Measuring "opportunity to outside school learning"--[[User:SvenAERTS|SvenAERTS]] 22:46, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
#Measuring "outside school learning"--[[User:SvenAERTS|SvenAERTS]] 22:46, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
#Measuring "opportunity to inside school learning"--[[User:SvenAERTS|SvenAERTS]] 22:46, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
#Measuring "inside school learning"--[[User:SvenAERTS|SvenAERTS]] 22:46, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
#Measuring "need for solution finding"--[[User:SvenAERTS|SvenAERTS]] 22:46, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
#Measuring "solution finding"--[[User:SvenAERTS|SvenAERTS]] 22:46, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
#Measuring "attempts for solution finding"--[[User:SvenAERTS|SvenAERTS]] 22:46, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
#Measuring "competence in operating laptops in tasks related to core applications (like a word processor)"
#Measuring "competence in searching for information on the computer
#Measuring "need for reaching out"--[[User:SvenAERTS|SvenAERTS]] 22:46, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
#Measuring "number of times a kid gets sick"--[[User:SvenAERTS|SvenAERTS]] 22:46, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
#Measuring "number of attempts a kid reaches out to find a cure"--[[User:SvenAERTS|SvenAERTS]] 22:46, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
#Measuring "number of successful attempts a kid reaches out and finds a cure"--[[User:SvenAERTS|SvenAERTS]] 22:46, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
#Measuring the extend of reaching and bringing learning to the parents via the kids: establish by when about all kids are sleeping. If the laptop is still used then, it must be parents or older kids using the laptop. Same logging / data collection can be used as on the main page.--[[User:SvenAERTS|SvenAERTS]] 22:46, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
#Measuring "parent involvement"
#Measuring "critical thinking"
#Measuring "creative thinking"
#Measuring "initiative"
#Measuring "discovery"
#Measuring "peer to peer teaching"
#Measuring "use of computers both at school and at home"
#Measuring "effects were found in general [[cognitive skills]]"
##Measuring "Attention Skills"
##Measuring "Sustained Attention
##Measuring "Selective Attention
##Measuring "Divided Attention: ...multi-tasking
#Measuring "Memory
##Measuring "Long-Term Memory
##Measuring "Short-Term / Working Memory
##Measuring "Logic and Reasoning
##Measuring "Auditory Processing
##Measuring "Visual Processing
##Measuring "Processing Speed
#Measuring "quality of the teachers"
##Measuring "the impact of teachers work in class on test scores" - "The fact that the test results show no impact may be interpreted as "the teachers work in class has no impact on test scores" -- something I am afraid is not far from the truth." extract from "An Alternative Reading of the independent IADB Study on Peru's OLPC Implementation" 18 Apr 2012, by Oscar Becerra, the person responsible for Una Laptop por Niño for almost five years with over 400.000 XO's implemented.
##Measuring "Number of Teachers that finished the extra trainings given"
##Measuring "Teacher Basic Math reasoning skills"
##Measuring "Teacher Evolved reading skills"
##Measuring "the extend teacher training was reinforced"
##Measuring "number of teachers completing the 8 hours on technical maintenance by teachers"
##Measuring "To what extend the education sector ability to attract the best of the best of the country versus the private sector or worse, maybe all leave the country and never come back" - [http://www.mckinseyonsociety.com/downloads/reports/Education/Worlds_School_Systems_Final.pdf this 2007 study by McKinsey] found that the world's most improved school systems had in common their concern for teacher quality and getting the best people into teaching
##Measuring "To what extend the kids have been given more options for their future with the OLPC Educational Universal Education Effort"
#Measuring "ICT skills" - ICT skills had been identified as key ingredients for success by many organizations (see, for example, [http://www.p21.org/storage/documents/P21_Report.pdf this report])
#Measuring "access and use of computers"
#Measuring "quality of instruction in class"
#Measuring "use of a word processor"
#Measuring "use of a calculator
#Measuring "playing games on a computer"
#Measuring "transferred a game you played on the computer into a game played outside"
#Measuring "transferred an out- or indoor game you found via the computer into a game you played with or without your friends"
#Measuring "playing music on a computer"
#Measuring "transferred music you played on the computer into music you played outside"
#Measuring "transferred an existing piece of music you found via the computer into music you played with or without your friends"
#Measuring "ability to integrate external stakeholders into educational efforts"
#Measuring "ability to integrate the XO computers into correct or desirable pedagogical practices"
#Measuring "ability to end rote learning and hitting kids"
#Measuring "ability to transfer ICT skills to other problems" ICT skills would be easily transferable to other platforms in the future since upgrading to new versions of Windows can be as complex as switching from Sugar to Windows
#Measuring "ability to protection against access to inappropriate content, because kids prefer to be busy with more interesting stuff"
#Measuring "intrinsic motivation towards school work,
#Measuring "intrinsic motivation towards attendance
#Measuring "intrinsic motivation towards homework
#Measuring "interest in school work"
#Measuring "pleasure in school work"
#Measuring "relation between effort and results obtained"
#Measuring "perceived competence for school work"
#Measuring "perceived importance of school work
#Measuring "creative stress"
#Measuring "perceived selection of what to do"
#Measuring "improved personal relations"
#Measuring "% of laptops malfunctioning"
#Measuring "% of laptops successfully repaired"
#Measuring "theft ratio"
#Measuring "theft ratio of XO's to the national average of other small portable items"
#Measuring "perceived competence for school work" - "self-perceived school competence ... evidence of small negative effects" (p.16) I don't agree with the implication of these negative effects as a decrease in self-esteem. What may be inferred is that children realize that they are not well prepared for school, a finding that is good if it motivates them to work harder to achieve what they want. What I found is that children in non-OLPC schools have extremely high perceived competence for school work, in spite of their dismal results, something the presence of the XO seemed to be correcting for good. Extract from "An Alternative Reading of the independent IADB Study on Peru's OLPC Implementation" 18 Apr 2012, by Oscar Becerra, the person responsible for Una Laptop por Niño for almost five years with over 400.000 XO's implemented.
#Measuring "negative effects of home computer usage on grades" (like in the West when some kids spend too much time on irrelevant ict use)
#Measuring "IQ test results" improved in Ethiopian children who participated in an OLPC program as per [http://nina.hansen.socialpsychology.org/ study by Nina Hansen]
#Measuring "the extend to which Students became more critical of the schools system and expected more of it."

[[Category:Evaluation]]

Learning

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Monitoring & Evaluation:

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	Sometimes hailed, sometimes cursed, there are thousands of metrics for the success of the teaching process, the success of learning a body of material, and the success of educational systems.		Sometimes hailed, sometimes cursed, there are thousands of metrics for the success of the teaching process, the success of learning a body of material, and the success of educational systems.
	* [[OLPC_research \|Key Literature]]		* [[OLPC_research \|Key Literature]]
-	* [[Innovation in Evaluation]]	+	* [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Innovation_in_Evaluation OLPC Workshop on Innovation in Evaluation]
		+	** Report and results of the April 4th and 5th, 2011 workshop "Innovation in Evaluation" at OLPC Cambridge, MA
		+	** [[List of potentially useful Criteria to monitor and evaluate an OLPC implementation]]

	== Education Policy ==		== Education Policy ==

Ask OLPC a Question/1

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How will these societies will be impacted:

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	How will the poorest societies in the world will be impacted by a sudden injection of technology on this scale? This is a critical question that needs much deeper answers than this FAQ has given. I've added [http://www.everythingisok.org/archives/20051220/66/100-questions some necessary questions] to dig deeper:		How will the poorest societies in the world will be impacted by a sudden injection of technology on this scale? This is a critical question that needs much deeper answers than this FAQ has given. I've added [http://www.everythingisok.org/archives/20051220/66/100-questions some necessary questions] to dig deeper:

-	* How will the success of the project be gauged?	+	* [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Learning#Monitoring_.26_Evaluation How will the success of the project be gauged?]

	:You tell us. We aren't the final judges. But I would think we would start with how much more the children are learning, how well it relates to their needs, whether it results in improvements in health, agricultural practices, social organization, economic opportunity, creating more responsive and less corrupt governments, real debate on the future of the world...Well, that's enough to be getting on with. --[[User:Mokurai\|Mokurai]] 18:19, 28 October 2006 (EDT)		:You tell us. We aren't the final judges. But I would think we would start with how much more the children are learning, how well it relates to their needs, whether it results in improvements in health, agricultural practices, social organization, economic opportunity, creating more responsive and less corrupt governments, real debate on the future of the world...Well, that's enough to be getting on with. --[[User:Mokurai\|Mokurai]] 18:19, 28 October 2006 (EDT)

What is an Open Hardware Project

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-	An [[Open Hardware Project]] is a hardware project - e.g. developing the most suitable laptop for kids of the age group 5 to 15 years, as OLPC is doing - that is evolving thanks to ~~the~~ free time, energy and competences that are available in society.	+	An [[Open Hardware Project]] is a hardware project - e.g. developing the most suitable laptop for kids of the age group 5 to 15 years, as OLPC is doing - that is evolving thanks to a multi-disciplinary team's free time, energy and competences that are available in society.

	Bringing Universal Primary education via the XO laptop is such an initiative and in the international not for profit OLPC, a group of people have organized themselves to organize that [[Open Community Initiative]].--[[User:SvenAERTS\|SvenAERTS]] 08:52, 16 May 2012 (UTC)		Bringing Universal Primary education via the XO laptop is such an initiative and in the international not for profit OLPC, a group of people have organized themselves to organize that [[Open Community Initiative]].--[[User:SvenAERTS\|SvenAERTS]] 08:52, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

What is an Open Software Initiative

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-	An [[Open Software Project]] is a project where a multi-disciplinary group of people together develop a specific software - e.g. Linux, Open Office, Sugar, etc. - that is evolving thanks to the free time, energy and competences that are available in society and in that group.	+	An [[Open Software Project]] is a project where a multi-disciplinary group of people together develop a specific software - e.g. [[Linux]], [[Open Office]], [[Sugar]], etc. - that is evolving thanks to the free time, energy and competences that are available in society and in that group.

	Bringing Universal Primary education via the XO laptop is an initiative using such Open Software. And in the international not for profit OLPC, a group of people have organized themselves to organize that [[Open Community Initiative]].--[[User:SvenAERTS\|SvenAERTS]] 08:52, 16 May 2012 (UTC)		Bringing Universal Primary education via the XO laptop is an initiative using such Open Software. And in the international not for profit OLPC, a group of people have organized themselves to organize that [[Open Community Initiative]].--[[User:SvenAERTS\|SvenAERTS]] 08:52, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
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An [[Open Software Project]] is a project where a multi-disciplinary group of people together develop a specific software - e.g. Linux, Open Office, Sugar, etc. - that is evolving thanks to the free time, energy and competences that are available in society and in that group.

Bringing Universal Primary education via the XO laptop is an initiative using such Open Software. And in the international not for profit OLPC, a group of people have organized themselves to organize that [[Open Community Initiative]].--[[User:SvenAERTS|SvenAERTS]] 08:52, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

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An [[Open Hardware Project]] is a hardware project - e.g. developing the most suitable laptop for kids of the age group 5 to 15 years, as OLPC is doing - that is evolving thanks to the free time, energy and competences that are available in society.

Bringing Universal Primary education via the XO laptop is such an initiative and in the international not for profit OLPC, a group of people have organized themselves to organize that [[Open Community Initiative]].--[[User:SvenAERTS|SvenAERTS]] 08:52, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

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-	Bringing Universal Primary education is such an initiative and in the international not for profit OLPC, a group of people have organized themselves to organize that [[Open Community Initiative]].--[[User:SvenAERTS\|SvenAERTS]] 08:52, 16 May 2012 (UTC)	+

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An [[Open Community Project]] is a project that is evolving thanks to the free time, energy and competences that are available in society.

Bringing Universal Primary education is such an initiative and in the international not for profit OLPC, a group of people have organized themselves to organize that [[Open Community Initiative]].--[[User:SvenAERTS|SvenAERTS]] 08:52, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

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Are there efforts to make OLPC an international organisation?:

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	==Are there efforts to make OLPC an international organisation?==		==Are there efforts to make OLPC an international organisation?==
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		+	"At the moment OLPC is an American-based non-profit organisation.
		+	The development of the $100 laptop hardware design was an excellent work!
		+	But isn't it time now to make this a more international movement?"
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		+	Yes of course.

	OLPC is an [[Open Community]], [[Open Software]] and [[Open Hardware]], Educational Initiative aligning with e.g. [[Millennium Development Goal nr.2]]: bringing universal primary education.		OLPC is an [[Open Community]], [[Open Software]] and [[Open Hardware]], Educational Initiative aligning with e.g. [[Millennium Development Goal nr.2]]: bringing universal primary education.
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	In the Engineering academic world, some professors choose not to align with great initiatives, others - like Prof. NEGROPONTE - do inspire their students to work on e.g. the technical part of helping to bring universal education, out came OLPC's XO. And congratulations to the MIT and Prof. NEGROPONTE, because they managed to get to a real breakthrough, i.e. developing an XO prototype, getting it in the hands of people like UN Secretaries, getting the initiative on the agenda, being a bit provocative and creating a media storm, etc.		In the Engineering academic world, some professors choose not to align with great initiatives, others - like Prof. NEGROPONTE - do inspire their students to work on e.g. the technical part of helping to bring universal education, out came OLPC's XO. And congratulations to the MIT and Prof. NEGROPONTE, because they managed to get to a real breakthrough, i.e. developing an XO prototype, getting it in the hands of people like UN Secretaries, getting the initiative on the agenda, being a bit provocative and creating a media storm, etc.

-	~~At the~~ moment ~~OLPC is~~ an ~~American-~~based ~~non~~-profit ~~organisation~~.	+	On a certain moment, an international team around Prof. NEGROPONTE needed to create an organization with a name that would carry this universal education initiative upon they had been working, and created a not for profit called OLPC and as the MIT was based in the USA, it was a not for profit according to American law of course.
-	The ~~development~~ of the $~~100 laptop~~ hardware ~~design~~ was ~~an excellent work!~~	+
-	~~But isn~~'t it ~~time now~~ to make this a ~~more~~ international ~~movement?~~	+	But not so long after that, OLPC opened up an entity in Europe - Belgium near Brussels: again a not for profit, this time according to Belgian law of course.
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		+	The team there has a very specific purpose. I assume you know that Brussels is the capital of the European Union and holds the highest concentration of diplomats in the world and is a strategic center in that sense, just like Paris, Switserland, Washington, Singapore and please add some other places in Brazil, India, Russia, China, and other booming places in our multi-polar world. The Brussels OLPC team makes sure they have and keep good contacts with all ambassadors, so that they are kept update when the president or the minister of education visits some international meeting in Brussels and try to squeeze themselves into that president or ministers agenda and talk and update them about "OLPC and help keep bringing Universal Education at the top of their agenda, "if they agree the young generation is among the most valuable assets the country has", etc.". So that when YOU, in your country manage to get a breakthrough, at least you can rest assure your president and minister of education know VERY WELL what OLPC is all about and that you are talking quality and they better take you serious and make time for you. Of course, check out your countries'page on this wiki to find out what has been done already, what the status is, align with groups that have been working on bringing Universal Education in your country. Be realistic. It took Mr. NEGROPONTE also the time and efforts to first make it to obtaining a University Degree, that was not enough, he had to make it to professor, not at some university but at the MIT, and luckely his brother was a senator and that made that finally the right circumstances came together so he could AND get a budget via his brother of some millions of $ and himself being in a fostering MIT-University level of university and with the right mix of technical students and lab and equipment and academics and support in Pedagogical insights, etc. to finally get an XO prototype and OLPC not for profit organization AND a whole open software community that programmed Linux and had been bashing monopolies for years and years and helped create the proper supportive base in society, and also educate society so they would understand what open software and open hardware and olpc was all about.
		+	Even in the worst developing country, there is a Ministry of Education and there are people that lived before and live now that have been dealing with Education, there are Universities and competent people dealing with Pedagogy and ICT and they know OLPC as well. I really would advise you to exchange viewpoints with them as well so you don't stand there at some point, bashing against your president or minister of education that OLPC and XO's are great and that they are incompetent for not having implemented it yet. You make a very bad figure if you would be number 500 coming to them asking them if they have heard of OLPC. Claiming you are so well informed and in a position to give advise about OLPC, yet you don't even know who has been doing what regarding OLPC and Education in your country/region. So please, check out the [[country pages]] and invest yourself a minimum in things.
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		+	If you want to talk about OLPC, no problem. You want to bring funds together, on problem, or yes there is. OLPC has had many cases where crooks CLAIM they are OLPC and just put their own personal bank account details and start collecting funds for some "OLPC" project when in fact the money goes just into their pockets or an NGO that is managed by them. 1. OLPC brings these people to court. 2. The proper way to do is to prepare well, go to the nearest legal OLPC entity, exchange viewpoints what you want to do and when you get green light to proceed - and probably they will give you additional great advise, contacts, material - and use an official OLPC bank account. By the way: OLPC bank accounts - as they are registered NGO's with additional tax benefits for donors - make it so that when people donate 100 € for your initiative, the ministry of taxes, adds another 33% or more to the 100 € or reimburses the donator with 33€ taxes, or cuts his taxes with 33€. And no worries, if your idea is so great, OLPC will - AFTERWARDS - give you the money you managed to collect on their bank account to do whatever it is you planned to do, like implementing a 10.000 XO test deployment in a certain region. You want to earn money with OLPC, no problem: go work in the Educational system in your country or introduce a project+budget in an NGO that is going to be so enthusiastic they allow you to apply for a fund under their NGO's name. When you get the fund for your project, that includes e.g. a salary for you coordinating the implementation of a 10.000 XO test deployment in a certain region, voila that's how you can make money thanks to OLPC/XO. You don't get paid for selling XO's or a commission by OLPC because you managed to get the government or some NGO sign a contract for 10.000 XO's. OLPC is not going to pay your flight to get to a place where you may meet a minister and maybe sign a contract for 10.000 XO's. OLPC is an open community project, if is carried by the free energy and time available in society, this means you have to put yourself into a position, e.g. you are working in some international organization that needs you to be in that specific country and after your work there, you have time to talk to the minister or go support a local deployment there. So in that sense, open community projects, open software projects are very hard: you contribute to Linux, but how you are going to make a living out of freely contributing to Linux is your problem in a certain sense. It must be so that the company that is hiring you or the people that need your services, the additional value you create, you can create it easier, more obviously, people will pay YOUR services quicker than someone else's services because you can demonstrate: "yes, but I am contributing to Linux or some open software project, so I know it better than the others, so with 100€, I can do a lot more than my competitor.". Or: "Who do you prefer to hire: a person that can demonstrate having programmed several times a software in the open source community that is apparently so useful because it is used by millions of users now, or someone who claims being able to spot market opportunities and claims offering solutions that are so brilliant they will be used by millions of users." These are drivers for people to invest time and efforts in "Open Community" projects. But as you sense probably, people do not always do that all their working life, but more when they are student or early career, or only when their company allows them to contribute to open community projects on their payroll e.g. 1 day every 14 days, or when they are retired and get paid by the state, etc. .
		+	This said, OLPC and again Prof. NEGROPONTE and his team were so competent - not only in pedagogy or ICT - they managed to demonstrate to companies and (powerful) people and inspire them so much they donated such sums of money, the not for profit could hire some full time paid workers to accelerate certain specific aspects of the OLPC goals. --[[User:SvenAERTS\|SvenAERTS]] 08:47, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
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	:There are numerous OLPC affiliates in other [[countries]] --[[User:Mokurai\|Mokurai]] 18:32, 28 October 2006 (EDT)		:There are numerous OLPC affiliates in other [[countries]] --[[User:Mokurai\|Mokurai]] 18:32, 28 October 2006 (EDT)

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Are there efforts to make OLPC an international organisation?:

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		+	OLPC is an [[Open Community]], [[Open Software]] and [[Open Hardware]], Educational Initiative aligning with e.g. [[Millennium Development Goal nr.2]]: bringing universal primary education.
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		+	In the Academic world e.g., professors - paid by public funds, may or may not contribute to bringing universal education, study what can foster this etc. and motivate their students to align with this or not. Those active in Pedagogy of course are more/very likely to have been studying how to improve and bring education to remote areas and since computers are around, how ict can help, what are the supportive conditions to make ict work for education better and what are conditions that make ict fail.
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		+	In the Engineering academic world, some professors choose not to align with great initiatives, others - like Prof. NEGROPONTE - do inspire their students to work on e.g. the technical part of helping to bring universal education, out came OLPC's XO. And congratulations to the MIT and Prof. NEGROPONTE, because they managed to get to a real breakthrough, i.e. developing an XO prototype, getting it in the hands of people like UN Secretaries, getting the initiative on the agenda, being a bit provocative and creating a media storm, etc.
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	At the moment OLPC is an American-based non-profit organisation.		At the moment OLPC is an American-based non-profit organisation.
	The development of the $100 laptop hardware design was an excellent work!		The development of the $100 laptop hardware design was an excellent work!

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