brown - digital divide - eric, max, charlie
TRANSCRIPT
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Max, Eric, Charlie
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The Problem
• Digital Divide - The separation of those who have access to sophisticated information technology and those who don’t
• Children all over the world confined to home country without access to world’s knowledge
• They may never have a chance to benefit our world
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The Problem• Illiteracy rates rising drastically• Economy of countries with high illiteracy rates
declining due to lack of jobs• Global economy falls as a result
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Digital Divide Statistics
• Less than 3 out of every 100 Africans use the Internet• 8 times as many Internet users in the US than on the
entire African continent. • 30 countries with an Internet penetration of less
than 1%.
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Fixing The Problems
• One Laptop Per Child: non-profit organization dedicated to providing free laptops to students in need
• Children are empowered to solve own problems
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An Introduction to OLPC: Video
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The 200-dollar laptop
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XO Review: Video
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Our Organization
• The Division Coalition• Make a difference in Ghana• Education one of the most valuable resources
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Our Purpose + Aim
• Empowerment > Charity• Give a man a fish, feed him for a day• Teach a man to fish, feed him for life
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Our Project: Ghana
• OLPC recently sent 10,000 laptops to Ghana
• Our goal is to reinforce that number
• The Republic of Ghana has 12,630 primary schools, 5,450 junior secondary schools, 503 senior secondary schools
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Goal
• Children can be properly educated• Futures possibly outside of their native
countries • Become members of the world's online
community.
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Action Plan
• Plan currently in motion • Established connections with SAS Puxi • No changes to our plan so far.
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Short-Term Plan
• Raise (at least) 1200 RMB• Purchase (at least) one XO laptop• Provide to child in Ghana
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Long-Term Plan:
• Continue raising money and sending laptops to the people who need them
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Other organizations that can help:
• One Laptop per Child (OLPC)• INTEL – Classmate PC• AMD – 50x15
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Interactive Activity:• Three Groups• Two groups get a
laptop• One group with
dictionary• 3 minutes to give
definition and usage of word
• No talking outside of groups
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Word 1
Valetudinarian
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Word 2
Escutcheon
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Word 3
Mellifluous
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Word 4
Lapidicolous
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Word 5
Gendarme
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Discussion• Group 1: Did you feel satisfied about having the
answers so quickly?• Group 2: Why was it that you never got the
answers?• Group 3: Was it frustrating to have all the
answers but always be after Group 1?
• Group 2, look on the side of your laptop at the wireless switch.
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Moral
• Education much easier with access to information technology
• XO’s will not work without interconnectivity
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Conclusion
• Technology leads to futures of many possibilities
• Children in developing countries educations can equal those in first-world countries
• It is up to us
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Sources• http://50x15.amd.com/en-us/default.aspx?si=1• http://50x15.amd.com/en-us/about.aspx• http://www.amd.com/us-en/• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_laptop_per_child• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_divide• http://laptop.org/en/vision/index.shtml• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghana • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classmate_PC• http://www.itu.int/wsis/tunis/newsroom/stats/
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Sources, Cont.
• Pictures:Slide 4: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/b/bd/20080910182710!Global_Digital_Divide1.png Slide 6: http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/games/olpc.gifSlide 8: http://www.imagecows.com/uploads/_128b-olpc_xo_laptop.jpgSlide 12: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Flag_of_Ghana.svg/450px-Flag_of_Ghana.svg.png Slide 17: www.amd.com