User:Mokurai/Earth Treasury

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Earth Treasury (currently redirects back here) has no corporate connection with OLPC, the maker of the $100 Laptop. OLPC just lets us use their Wiki.--Mokurai 02:51, 3 June 2007 (EDT)

This page is a place-holder until Earth Treasury can create its own Web site.

Extending Give One Get One

OLPC ended G1G1 on December 31, 2007. Earth Treasury has created a similar program, GiveSomeGetSome (Tell us how many you would like on the page, or e-mail us). We plan to buy from OLPC's Give Many program in quantity.

Our plan turns out not to be feasible, because the GiveMany program is broken.

Vision

The end of poverty through communication and sustainable commerce

Mission

Who we are

  • Edward Mokurai Cherlin, Founder, Earth Treasury
  • Mark Roest, OneVillage Foundation
  • David Alan Foster, DesignFluence

Volunteers

What we need, where you can sign up.

What is not in the OLPC mission?

OLPC has decided to focus its attention on the education mission, including Constructionism, and on creating and delivering the laptop hardware and software to support that mission. This includes some parts of Rethinking textbooks, and possibly Curriculum development. Other issues are out of scope, and are being left to governments and to other organizations to address.

Earth Treasury has decided to tackle all of the remaining issues, either in its own programs, starting with connecting schools and teaching business, or by partnering with others.

There are also issues nominally in scope that OLPC management has neglected. This includes

  • Teacher training
  • Organizing Localization projects in a timely manner whenever a country or language group becomes a likely target for deployment
  • Evaluation of laptop education programs, and comparisons between different laptops and software ("bake-offs")
  • Publishing research results

Further thoughts on these and other topics will appear in Earth Treasury pages on this Wiki.

Wiki

OLPC says that we can use the OLPC Wiki for our business. Please put the following category link on any page that is specific to Earth Treasury. [[Category:Earth Treasury]]

See also