OLPCO2e

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OLPCO2e was a project and plan of action proposed by Sven Aerts along the plan of action Agenda 21-Chapter IV and MDG nr.2, to somehow define the Low Carbon Economy-potential and more in particular the CO2e-certificates'potential that could be monetized by investing in green, environmentally friendly laptops such as the XO, rather than traditional power-hungry machines. The proposed project got as far as registering a domain at OLPCO2e.org (which redirects to this page) and setting up a few administrative pages. The project as a whole was not pursued / did not proceed after Sven left OLPC in mid-2009 after the initiative was killed by OLPCeurope manager Walter De Brouwer - President and CEO, OLPC Europe after instructions by the OLPC partner Google.

Some highlights of the proposed but deprecated idea:

• It was connected variously to the UN goal of Universal Primary Education by 2015, and to other UN programs such as Agenda 21
• An "Animated OLPCO2e Assistant" was discussed and designed
• A Quality Control Panel was developed for the proposal
• IRC chat. Just google IRC if you're not familiar with it... it's brilliant if you want to talk to people that are familiar with OLPC, or OLPC Staff. There's people from every continent=Time Zone, so, you can talk instantly to people 24/7/365)
• AfricaCO2.org has been mandated by OLPCO2e.org to talk, develop, deploy, monetize and implement OLPCO2e's Plan of Action in Ruanda and Burundi.
• ECOSUNsolutions.org has been mandated by OLPCO2e.org to talk, develop, deploy, monetize and implement OLPCO2e's Plan of Action in Gambia.

Sites and groups not controlled by OLPC:

• Separate sites have been set up as an OLPCO2e Virtual/Wiki Office (on a different wiki, closed to editing), a Discussion Group, and a private "Staff & Kernel Team" wiki. The Kernel team is to initiatiate a plan of Action and safe environment for the initiative to foster.

  Aside from perhaps Giulia D'Amico, no OLPC staff have access to those external sites, and no editors of this wiki other than Giulia and Sven. OLPC have no control over their content... even less than over any page on this wiki :-). Certain people of the OLPC - open and free initiative do have access to the restricted staff-only olpco2e-wiki. The restricted staff-only OLPCO2e-wiki in this is no different from the restricted spaces reserved to OLPC staff, wikipedia staff, fedora staff, red-hat staff, AfricaCO2 staff, wikipedia staff.

See also

Pages never created:

Brainstorming OLPCO2e
SWOT OLPCO2e
Plan of Action OLPCO2e
Prioritize OLPCO2e
Feasibility Study OLPCO2e
Business Plan OLPCO2e
Frequently Asked Questions OLPCO2e
Vocabulary Terminology Explained OLPCO2e
The history of Money and its relation to the history of OLPC and OLPCO2e