OLPC Content Working Group

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This is the Wiki for the Notes, Proceedings and Intellectual Gestalts/ Ruminations of the OLPC Content Working Group and its members.

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OLPC Meeting Notes (30 Nov 06)

attending: Samuel Klein and Matthew Steven Carlos


  • Identify Human Resource Hubs/Nodes for each Community/ Country (and the reasons these particular people are important to the success of OLPC). These include:
    • Kids
    • Artists
    • Storytellers
    • Teachers
    • Librarians
      • Christine Madsen (Open Collections Program, Manager @ Harvard University Library)
    • Non-profits
      • Cathy Casserly (Hewlett Foudation)
      • Mike Smith (Hewlett Foundation)


    • Global Academics
    • Scholars at Liberty (eg. McArthur Fellows)
      • Aaron Lansky (National Yiddish Book Center, Founder)
    • Other HR Nodes
      • Edward Tufte (Harvard Faculty)


  • What people/ organisations might help us identify and contact these HR Hubs:
    • United Nations
    • Harvard Centre for Refugee Trauma (who have created stories with developing world populations).
    • Area-Specialist Librarians at the Harvard Libraries
    • Poverty Lab at MIT
    • African Virtual University


  • How do we present the mission and method to these various persons/institutions?


  • When OLPC kids produce content, how is that content shared / uploaded (with both other OLPC communities and the industrialized world)?
    • OLPC/Partner Not-for-Profit manages a domain and content team ... blogs.laptop.org / podcasts.laptop.org ... that every/anyone recognizes as the first place to go for this content genre. Benefits of this initial approach for OLPC public relations (enumerate: ). What kinds of copyright will be employed by default? (include this as part of the briefing OLPC communities receive).


  • How might OLPC communities download / access tremendous content repositories during brief/ sporadic (eg. satellite) internet connections?
    • Work (who?) with communities and content repositories (eg. NYTimes, BBC, etc) to craft downloadable packages of content, indexes of significant global content.


  • Note not only what are the questions, but what are the values to inhere within the answers (eg. durability, timelessness, robustness).


  • What stories might one tell children to help them teach others (children and adults) about this technology?
    • Communicate to the communities that the content they produce is valuable to the industrialized world. To to see how we are the same and different; to provide new paradigms for human interaction, as well as the uses of technology, etc.
    • Gather the OLPC stories about what did not go as planned during the research and initial implementation of the project (wrong, imperfect, etc) and find a way to combine them into one story OLPC might share with other organisations and the communities where this technology will be dispersed.
    • Acquire copyright for text (story) adventures.
    • Write story about writing these sort of text adventures.