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I'm looking for ways that [[User:Bnardone |my organization]] might work with or through OLPC.
I'm looking for ways that [[User:Bnardone |my organization]] might work with or through OLPC. Couple bits that have occurred to me are below in ultra-brief format. Input solicited.

Couple bits that have occurred to me are below in ultra-brief format. Input solicited.


===1 - Communications mechanism between nearest health care providers and children with mothers who are expecting.===
===1 - Communications mechanism between nearest health care providers and children with mothers who are expecting.===
* Use laptops to connect health care clinics with the families in OLPC target areas.
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Use laptops to connect health care clinics with the families in OLPC target areas. Poll software to allow teachers to ask children questions, e.g. 'who's mother is expecting', and then pump info to the families through the kids/laptops. Use same mechanism to educate? Establish a 2-way communication mechanism so that health care providers who are too far away for easy visits can monitor and guide the mothers-to-be.

* Something like 'polling' software to allow teachers (or nearest healthcare entity through teachers) to ask children questions, e.g. 'who's mother is expecting',
* and then pump info to the families through the kids/laptops based on responses, eg nutritional priorities throughout pregnancy, expected/acceptable duration of labor so as to trigger intervention in problem deliveries before it's too late.
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* Use same mechanism to educate? Establish a 2-way communication mechanism so that health care providers who are too far away for easy visits can monitor and guide the mothers-to-be.
* Maybe explore use of the video capture to enhance distance monitoring by the healthcare worker?


===2 - Monitoring & Evaluation Data Collection devices ===
===2 - Monitoring & Evaluation Data Collection devices ===
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===3 - Laptops as story collectors, citizen journalism devices ===
===3 - Laptops as story collectors, citizen journalism devices ===

Wondering if it might be possibly use laptops/laptop recipients to help document our work, or to promote and/or advocate for [[User:Bnardone/RHFP|RH/FP]] in recipient countries.

If twenty kids have a laptop with an OK camera and the ability to tell me what a picture means, then there's going to be one that can do as good a job as anyone of telling the truth about what's happening somewhere.
Interested in making a connection with a single recipient, or group of recipients, and exploring stuff in the vein of citizen journalism.



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Not necessarily/immediately to do with my company, but other bits I'm looking forward to:

* VLOG to MySpace and the like
* Virtual world a la Second Life. I hear the folks at Linden Labs are working on an actual SL thin client for the XOs.
* Monetary transfer mechanism of some sort. Something to let people hire, invest in, donate to, individual laptop recipients.

Latest revision as of 02:51, 26 November 2007

User:Ben Nardone::My Talk::Internship::G1G1::Software::Peru::Nigeria

I'm looking for ways that my organization might work with or through OLPC. Couple bits that have occurred to me are below in ultra-brief format. Input solicited.

1 - Communications mechanism between nearest health care providers and children with mothers who are expecting.

  • Use laptops to connect health care clinics with the families in OLPC target areas.
  • Something like 'polling' software to allow teachers (or nearest healthcare entity through teachers) to ask children questions, e.g. 'who's mother is expecting',
  • and then pump info to the families through the kids/laptops based on responses, eg nutritional priorities throughout pregnancy, expected/acceptable duration of labor so as to trigger intervention in problem deliveries before it's too late.
  • Use same mechanism to educate? Establish a 2-way communication mechanism so that health care providers who are too far away for easy visits can monitor and guide the mothers-to-be.
  • Maybe explore use of the video capture to enhance distance monitoring by the healthcare worker?

2 - Monitoring & Evaluation Data Collection devices

Turn laptops into data collection devices? Submit survey info from laptops to a site, via email or ftp? USB GPS?

3 - Laptops as story collectors, citizen journalism devices

Wondering if it might be possibly use laptops/laptop recipients to help document our work, or to promote and/or advocate for RH/FP in recipient countries.

If twenty kids have a laptop with an OK camera and the ability to tell me what a picture means, then there's going to be one that can do as good a job as anyone of telling the truth about what's happening somewhere.

Interested in making a connection with a single recipient, or group of recipients, and exploring stuff in the vein of citizen journalism.


--- Not necessarily/immediately to do with my company, but other bits I'm looking forward to:

  • VLOG to MySpace and the like
  • Virtual world a la Second Life. I hear the folks at Linden Labs are working on an actual SL thin client for the XOs.
  • Monetary transfer mechanism of some sort. Something to let people hire, invest in, donate to, individual laptop recipients.
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