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CHILDREN AS A MISSION NOT AS A MARKET Rodrigo Arboleda Chairman and CEO
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NOTASAMARKET Rodrigo Arboleda Chairman and CEO Children as a Mission not as a Market Uruguay URGENCY! Epidemic Need to find a vaccine When one is found… One vaccinates everybody! Senegal circa 1982 A vaccine against ignorance! Who we are OLPC-One Laptop Per Child OLPC is a non-profit entity registered in the United States Foundedin MIT-Boston What are we trying to do? The genesisin Colombia Monsignor Jose JoaquínSalcedo Origins Jean Piaget Seymour Papert Nicholas Negroponte So, the challenge
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CHILDREN AS A MISSION
NOT AS A MARKET
Rodrigo ArboledaChairman and CEO
Children as a Mission not as a Market
Uruguay
URGENCY!
Epidemic
Need to find a vaccine
When one is found…
One vaccinates everybody!
A vaccine against ignorance!
Senegal circa 1982
Who we are
OLPC is a non-profit entity registered in the United States
OLPC- One Laptop Per Child
Founded in MIT-Boston
What are we trying to do?
The genesis in Colombia
Monsignor Jose Joaquín Salcedo
Origins
Jean Piaget Seymour Papert
Nicholas Negroponte
So, the challenge
What is wrong?
We teach the wrong thing
• It has a precise name:….
Intellectual Property
Need to create true wealth XXI Century
First tool to be embraced: the Binary or Digital code
0 1
We just have barely scratched the surface of this Code in the region.
A = Adenine T = Thiamine C = Cytosine G = Guanine
Second tool to embrace
They are the new alphabet of the genetic code. Where the digital age ends, the bio-genetic age begins
It is the knowledge code of the future……
- Examples-
Surgery circa 1900 Surgery of today
Compare this to a classroom in 1900 and one in 2005
- Examples -
Old Classroom “New” classroom
They have not changed one bit- and both are wrong
We teach it in the
Wrong Manner
Child centric
vsTeacher centric
Teaching
vs.
Learning
Team Work Individual Access to Knowledge
Teachers as facilitators
Why small children of 4-12 years of age?
• Inventor, Innovator, Researcher
• We need to start creating this profile from very early stages of growth.
Profile of the citizen for XXI Century
Need to create Inventors, Innovators,
Learning by doing
Robotics via the XO laptop
Communication skills
Critical thinking & problem solving
Curiosity
Creativity
The learning Brain
The Teaching Brain
The Reading Brain
We implement it at
the wrong speed!
The Wrong Speed
• The Digital Economy forces a change in the perception of time and speed of development .
• We cannot afford not see the speed of change anymore.
And at the Wrong Order of Magnitude
Incrementalism Versus Scalability
Coverage
Total Saturation
Why a Laptop (or a Tablet)?
• We are NOT a Computer Project or a Computer Company
Children are our mission not our market
So, How to reach 1 Billion Children, Fast?
Do nothing?
“Social Entrepreneurship”
Public Sector
Private Sector NGOs
Does it change anything?
Virtuous Circles
Education for Peace
Social Change
End of Poverty
End of Isolation
Does it Work?
Children as a Mission not as a Market
PERU
and
Colombia
60,000 childrencould be betteroff with the laptops XO
Proposal under evaluation
The challenge: AFRICA
The challenge: AFRICA
54 Countries
>3,000 spoken languages
>200 mln children in primary school
OLPC has already covered150,000 children, reachingout 1 mln people in the Continent
>70,000 XOS
14 COUNTRIES
LESS THAN 24 MONTHS
OLPC Partners
KERIS and OLPC share the vision:
Education is the key for social development
Enormous Challenge
• Among the living forces of the world, the resources are there….
If President Kennedy posed to his people to send a man to the moon IN LESS THAN ONE DECADE, why we cannot give a a connected XO laptop with educational content to 1 billion children in less than ten years?
What are we waiting for?
Give a laptop
and change the world
