OLPC South Africa

Initiatives

Public Sector Initiatives

• Programs
  • The existing schools programs will form the backbone for distributing e-Learning content
  • The Government programs with Sentech and Telkom applied
  • The Universal Services agency (http://www.USA.org.za)
  • The Government information services (http://www.gcis.gov.za)
  • The Department of Service (http://www.dpsa.gov.za) delivery
• Investors
  • Investments can be obtained from the donor management people with Treasury. http://www.dcis.gov.za.

Private Sector Initiatives

Furyx

Furyx understands the challenges of distributing content in Africa where Internet connectivity is slow, unreliable, expensive and often non existent.

Furyx has developed distribution mechanisms where content can be simultaneously distributed using the internet and CD/DVD to augment the bandwidth of the internet connection.

• Content
  • Free content is obtained from existing Government initiatives, e-Learning institutions and business incubators.
• Content Management & Distribution Software
  • Content is cached on servers at Schools or Information Hubs. Students can schedule the automatic downloading of content not available at their hub. Content download priority is based on the number of requests received for a specific piece of content.
  • Currently Furyx systems use Microsoft .Net Framework & Web Services on the Server and HTML, Java or .Net on the client.
• Network Infrastructure
  • Information Hubs are connected together using National Telecoms or Satellite connectivity
  • Users are linked together using WiFi or WiMax to form a mesh with potentially a Hub as an internet bridging point
  • Pre-packaged business models like ISP, e-commerce and free business accounting packages encourage the community to use the infrastructure to improve its own welfare.
• User Devices
  • Furyx is currently searching and designing low cost user terminals. Current available options include:
    • Home entertainment PC:
      • Many households own a $100 battery powered television set. By merging television functionality (KnoppMyth) into the PC, the potential exists to make it affordable to households.
      • Devices will cost less than $300 in low volumes.
    • OLPC:
      • The OLPC initiative promises to eventually deliver laptop computers with pre configured mesh networking for around $100.

--Jaco Vosloo 03:58, 4 April 2006 (EDT)

Aleph Career Development

Aleph Career development provides you with a global community for the development of thriving careers. Expert knowledge packaged into effortless processes. Freely apply this knowledge and build a thriving career.

The Walk & Talk guide

Fundamental skills every career builder should know of. The Walk and Talk guide was developed from the fundamental knowledge that cause a business to succeed or a career to thrive. Career Builder has identified the knowledge the top half percent of successful individuals and businesses apply daily. The Walk and Talk guide consists of this knowledge and was compiled by career and business experts over a period of ten years.

How to write a resume

How to write a resume and the Continuous Resumes® process. Welcome to the how to write a resume page, a step by step process for building your resume as well as free resume samples to get you started. Career Builder has worked through in excess of four thousand resumes and cover letters over the past ten years. We have recruited more than five hundred people in our own companies as well as many other companies. There are many ways one can use a resume to build a career, other than landing a job.

Career building

Expand your career builder skills with the continuously changing job arena

• Career choices:
  • Career research and trends
  • Fear of the unknown
• Get more done!
  • Delegation
• Deadlines:
  • Setting ones own Compelling Events or Deadlines
• Meetings:
  • Facilitate and manage a meeting

Starting a small business

Building a career is similar to starting a small business. We have found that being a career builder one face very much the same risks as when starting a small business. Some of the most compelling risks when starting a small business include:

• The maturity of the concept used when starting a small business
• The strength of the team starting a small business
• Supply chain maturity and stability
• The network supporting one in starting a small business
• Certainty and clarity on the distribution channel
• Proven demand from an identified end client
• Are emotional hooks on the end client, suppliers and the support channel in place in place?
• Does the purposed concept fit with the end clients’ expectations?

We have built many businesses and hope to bring this knowledge to a global audience of career builders. We are currently in the process of packaging this knowledge to fit the needs of a career builder. This knowledge will also be of great value to small business owners.

Find a career coach

Find a career coach in your environment Find a career coach with the right relationships to develop your career and expand your career choices. Career Builder identified the essential career builder skills; use them to turn any career challenge into a career growth opportunity. When experiencing frustration or fear in your career use these emotions as opportunities to fast track your career growth; use them to pro-actively grow your career! Career Builder assisted and is still assisting thousands of people in their career growth. We worked with more than thirty entrepreneurs and coached them through the process of building successful running companies. We are still working with this group of entrepreneurs and their companies as well as a new group of young entrepreneurs. Any successful business takes seven years to build. Career Builder coaching processes are forged in the fire of building these successful businesses and the development of the people running them; these processes are being used in many other companies as well.

Make your own web site

Build your career, make your own web site. How to make your own web site, boost your career and turn your personal website into a web business. The basics every site builder or aspiring e-commerce buff must have an understanding of, to start a successful web business! We are in the process of creating an e-book on “How to make your own web site, the fundamentals of starting your own web business ” the gist of it will be available on this page once the book is published; the complete e-book will be available for free download.

Job search

What to do before you start a job search. Following is a list of job search sites we found to be the best [1]

--Jaco Vosloo 03:58, 4 April 2006 (EDT)