User:Php5
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Thank you for your interests. First of all, let me clear some facts.
I & OLPC KOREA HAVE NO OFFICIAL RELATIONSHIP WITH THE OLPC FOUNDATION. THE PAGES I WROTE ARE ALL ABOUT EXPERIMENTS OR TESTS DONE BY A FEW CITIZENS IN SOUTH KOREA AND DPR CHINA, RATHER THAN A PROTOTYPE BEFORE SCHEDULED MASS PRODUCTION.
- Full Name
- Do Young-Min, 도 영민
- jeju123@gmail.com (every morning and every midnight before going to bed, I check my mail account. So, anyone having sent a mail will receive my reply no later than A DAY)
- Background & role
- Originally publishing occupation (Gasan Publishing Co., Korea), but currently part-time farmer and fisher in Jejudo Island, Korea, and, from time to time, provide educational hardwares and softwares to various facilities.
Some Korean citizens are interested in deploying XO to Korea with its several derivatives such as XO Smartphone or Larger XO etc. I'm in charge of translating Korean opinions into English and posting them onto various websites including here, wiki.laptop.
- Main focus
- XO Korea - focusing on persuading the Korean government to be with OLPC and interested in;
- designing, manufacturing and deploying some XO derivatives. See XO Smartphone, Larger XO
- applying XO to public (governmental) and private (business) sectors. See Open Enterprise Architecture
- finding a practical deployment of machines based on XO-like philosophy (open source, collaboration, simple is best) such as MIT Foldable Electric City Car engineered by MIT Media Lab. See XO-like machines and their deployments
- redesigning the governmental infrastructure of a nation based on Information Technologies (administration, legislation and justice system). See Government Server
- redesigning business processes using IT. See Business Server
- designing City Communities based on XO-like philosophy (open democracy, energy efficient, simple, open schools and other social infra, and first of all ecological ones). See XO Cities
- Location
- Currently in jejudo, the largest island of Korea.
To Do List of XO Korea
My role in XO Korea is to translate some Korean articles onto this OLPC wiki.
- Estimated budgets for OLPC deployments
- Korean pre-primary schools: 193 millions
- Korean primary schools: 475 millions
- Korean secondary schools: 558 millions
- Korean (under)graduate schools: 559 millions
- Korean special-purpose educational entities
- results and progress of contacting governmental organizations
- results and progress of contacting OLPC
- results and progress of making hardware prototypes
- results and progress of establishing software architecture
- results and progress of composing Korean Mesh Network
