Podcasts about One Laptop per Child

Gadgets, accessories, furniture, computers, and even robots: In recent memory, the language of good design has been shaped and driven by Yves Béhar, founder of Fuseproject. On this episode, Dan speaks with the Swiss-born impresario on his early career with Frog Design, what motivated some of his most famous projects like One Laptop Per Child, what he thinks about A.I. and the housing crisis, and his latest endeavor, the all-electric TELO Truck. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Dive deep into the mesmerizing world of AI with Walter Bender, the tech visionary who not only witnessed AI's inception but actively sculpted its evolution. From his impactful tenure at MIT and co-founding the One Laptop Per Child initiative to leading innovations at Sorcero, Walter's story is a testament to the boundless potential of technology. In this episode, we explore the challenges and triumphs of implementing AI in healthcare, Sorcero's groundbreaking techniques to combat AI hallucinations, and a glimpse into the future of AI-driven solutions. Join us for a riveting conversation that promises insights for tech enthusiasts, educators, healthcare professionals, and everyone in between. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tonyphoang/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tonyphoang/support

This is a REPLAY of last year's episode with Dr. Mary Lou Jepsen – serial entrepreneur, inventor, pioneer in VR, medical imaging and telepathic technology, former professor at MIT Media Lab and currently, founder of Openwater.Mary Lou spent many of her childhood years unwell before she was finally diagnosed with a brain tumour in her twenties. And going through that had a huge impact on her life as you might expect. For the many years she was quite literally dying, she decided she only wanted to work on really interesting projects - as she says to me in this interview, “I never really thought I would live very long and so I wanted to find really interesting things to do with my life for however long I might live.”Mary Lou became fascinated with holography and optics whilst at school and spent her career pioneering in VR and in the optics space as an engineering executive at Intuit, Google, Facebook, Oculus, and with her own four startups which included multi-billion dollar non-profit One Laptop Per Child.She is now using her decades long experience in this space and her experience with a brain tumour to spearhead Openwater where the goal is to create the technology to be able to see deep into the body with the detail of a 3D camera. The implications of this technology will make critical diagnostics healthcare far more affordable and accessible for millions but it could also mean we achieve telepathy which is hugely exciting. Mary Lou website / Openwater / Twitter Danielle Twitter / Instagram / NewsletterMentioned in this episode:I Know What You're Thinking: Brain Imaging and Mental Privacy 

Ana introduces the One Laptop Per Child scheme which auspiciously deployed millions of laptops to children in the Global South between 2005 - 2014. The girls discuss the impacts of the campaign, whether the charismatic idea of “fixing the world” via access to digital literacy actually translated to reality, the issues with constructivism, while analysing Morgan G. Ames' study in Paraguay from her book “The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child”. They kick things of with chatting about Camila's online residency and Ana's street demonstration.Follow us on Twitter @OurFriendCompAnd Instagram @ourfriendthecomputerMain research for the episode was done by Ana who also audio edited.Music by Nelson Guay (SoundCloud: fluxlinkages)OFtC is a sister project of the Media Archaeology Lab at the University of Colorado at Boulder.  References:- Ames, Morgan G., “The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child”, 2019, The MIT Press- “The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child, By Dr. Morgan G. Ames”, UNC African Studies Center, 2022, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCeaQUPaze4- Robertson, Adi, "OLPC's $100 laptop was going to change the world — then it all went wrong", 2018, The Verge, https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/16/17233946/olpcs-100-laptop-education-where-is-it-now- “Nicholas Negroponte Interview - One Laptop per Child (OLPC)”, 2007, OLPCFoundation, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o97UD78s6iM- Cortés, Mariana Ludmila, “OLPC Announces Partnership with Zamora Teran Foundation”, Laptop.org, 2015, http://blog.laptop.org/2015/09/03/olpc-announces-partnership-with-zamora-teran-foundation/#.ZAjnmezP3n4

Full transcription available at http://heartsofgoldpodcast.com/ Kennedy took a Girl Scout Troop experience and created a STEM program, with a special focus on minorities in STEM. More from Kennedy: Hello, my name is Kennedy Watkins. I am the founder of Gilded Teas, an organic loose-leaf tea company. My company's mission is to encourage minorities to join the STEM and agriculture fields. During high school, I was a part of One Laptop Per Child my sophomore year and along with other girls, created lesson plans to teach elementary students how to code in Barbados as my May program. I wanted to continue to introduce more people to the STEM field. In my Junior year, I began working on my Gold Award, the highest award recognized by a Girl Scout. The project was influenced by my time in Barbados. I created my own lesson plans and I'm sharing them with teachers. Currently, I am a Computer Science major, and this past year I didn't see many females of color in my classes. I wanted to grow an audience for my message so that I could reach more people and grow more awareness. I want to use my company's platform to teach a new audience about this. Gilded Teas targets health-conscious tea drinkers who before learning of my company were unaware of the stem field from a minority perspective. https://gildedteas.com/ https://www.instagram.com/gildedteasllc/ Share this show with your friends on Twitter. Click to have an editable already written tweet! https://ctt.ac/33zKe Join our Facebook Community https://www.facebook.com/sherylmrobinson/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/sherylmrobinson/?hl=en Please subscribe to Hearts of Gold on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/sherylmrobinson or on your favorite podcast app. Support future Hearts of Gold episodes at https://www.patreon.com/heartsofgold Editing by https://www.offthewalter.com/ Walter's YouTube channel is https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt0wFZRVaOpUd_nXc_8-4yQ

En el Episodio 27 T2 del Podcast Emprendedores Senior entrevistamos a Carlos González Tardón para hablar de videos juegos serios y gamificación Carlos González Tardón, es Doctor en Psicología, Ocio y Desarrollo Humano por el Instituto de Estudios de Ocio de la Universidad de Deusto, con una tesis doctoral sobre Videojuegos para la Transformación Social que se centraba en el estudio de Videojuegos Serios y Gamificación aplicada al proyecto One Laptop Per Child. Licenciado en Psicología por la Universidad de Barcelona. Si eres un Emprendedor Senior y quieres contar tu experiencia a otros Senior que estén empezando o en el camino de emprender, ponte en contacto con nosotros, Asociación Elefantes Solidarios, los datos de contacto los puedes ver en nuestra web https://elefantessolidarios.org/ Puedes apoyar este Proyecto de dar visibilidad a los Emprendedores Senior realizando la Donación del equivalente a un Café, en Buy me a Coffe https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ElefantesSolida O si lo prefieres lo puedes hacer con una Donación directa a nuestra cuenta de Stripe en el siguiente enlace https://buy.stripe.com/fZeg2D7xq5BIgH65kk MUCHAS GRACIAS La Asociación Elefantes Solidarios ayuda a los Profesionales Seniors +45 a buscar trabajo, a generar sinergias entre ellos, a colaborar con los Emprendedores, Pymes, Autónomos y la Administración, a continuar Formándose, en definitiva a poner en evidencia que todavía tienen mucho que aportar a la Sociedad. Puedes conocer mejor lo que hacemos visitando nuestra web http://elefantessolidarios.org/ o siguiéndonos en nuestras redes sociales Este Podcast fue grabado, editado y distribuido por Comunicar en Senior , te invitamos a visitar nuestra web para que veas cómo trabajamos https://comunicarensenior.com

Brent sits down with Dr Quentin Stafford-Fraser, computer scientist, serial-entrepreneur, inventor (perhaps) of the webcam, Augmented Reality Ph.D. who ran the very first web server at the University of Cambridge, among much more. We explore topics including computer science as an art-form, the origins of the Raspberry Pi and T9 predictive text, philosophies around innovation and invention, challenging the patent system, and more. Special Guest: Quentin Stafford-Fraser.

Today's guest is Dr. Mary Lou Jepsen – serial entrepreneur, inventor, pioneer in VR, medical imaging and telepathic technology, former professor at MIT Media Lab and currently, founder of Openwater.Mary Lou spent many of her childhood years unwell before she was finally diagnosed with a brain tumour in her twenties. And going through that had a huge impact on her life as you might expect. For the many years she was quite literally dying, she decided she only wanted to work on really interesting projects - as she says to me in this interview, “I never really thought I would live very long and so I wanted to find really interesting things to do with my life for however long I might live.”Mary Lou became fascinated with holography and optics whilst at school and spent her career pioneering in VR and in the optics space as an engineering executive at Intuit, Google, Facebook, Oculus, and with her own four startups which included multi-billion dollar non-profit One Laptop Per Child.She is now using her decades long experience in this space and her experience with a brain tumour to spearhead Openwater where the goal is to create the technology to be able to see deep into the body with the detail of a 3D camera. The implications of this technology will make critical diagnostics healthcare far more affordable and accessible for millions but it could also mean we achieve telepathy which is hugely exciting. Mary Lou website / Openwater / Twitter Danielle Twitter / Instagram / NewsletterMentioned in this episode:I Know What You're Thinking: Brain Imaging and Mental Privacy 

This month, Shobita and Jack discuss how scientists are engaging in the boiling politics of abortion in the United States, the implications of large language models (a new type of artificial intelligence), and Elon Musk's possible takeover of Twitter. And we have a fascinating conversation with Morgan Ames about her award-winning book The Charisma Machine, which focuses on the global One Laptop Per Child project. Ames is Professor of Practice at the School of Information and Associate Director of Research for the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine and Society at the University of California, Berkeley.- Morgan G. Ames (2019). The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop Per Child. MIT Press.- Morgan G. Ames (2021). "Laptops alone can't bridge the digital divide." MIT Technology Review. October 27.- Morgan G. Ames (2019). "Future Generations will Suffer if we Don't Solve Unequal Access to Tech." Pacific Standard. April 2.- Morgan G. Ames (2019). "The Smartest People in the Room? What Silicon Valley's Supposed Obsession with Tech-Free Private Schools Really Tells Us." LA Review of Books. October 18.- Roger A. Pielke Jr. (2007). The Honest Broker: Making Sense of Science in Policy and Politics. Cambridge University Press.- Dan Sarewitz (2013). "Science must be seen to bridge the political divide." Nature. 493: 7.- Johanna Okerlund, Evan Klasky, Aditya Middha, Sujin Kim, Hannah Rosenfeld, Molly Kleinman, Shobita Parthasarathy (2022). What's in the Chatterbox? Large Language Models, Why They Matter, and What We Should Do About Them. Technology Assessment Project, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Project, University of Michigan.- Richard Van Noorden (2022). "How language-generation AIs could transform science." Nature. April 28.Study Questions:1) What are the problems with scientists taking such a prominent role in the abortion debate, especially in the US? 2) What was the hope behind the One Laptop Per Child project, and how did it fail?3) What biases lay underneath the One Laptop Per Child project, in the idea, the design, and the implementation?4) What role does hype play in shaping our understanding of emerging technologies? What are its positive and negative dimensions?5) Could a One Laptop Per Child-type project ever be successful? How?Transcript available at thereceivedwisdom.org.

Heute sprechen Oli und Michael über eine ganze Menge Jubiläen: nicht nur der Raspberry Pi wird 10 Jahre alt, sondern auch die CD wird stolze 40 diesen Monat. Außerdem beleuchten wir die Auswirkungen des Lockdowns in Shenzhen, sprechen über Finfisher und über das neue Kapitel des Open Source-Dramas in München.

Jason and Molly begin this double-header Sunday show with a VC Sunday School segment on top-tier VC behavior (01:38). You will learn: 1. How first-tier VCs compare to second-tier VCs 2. When VCs should intervene in a portfolio company 3. The difference between micromanaging and good governance 4. Jason's framework for ensuring alignment: Mission, Plan, Strategy, Tactics 5. Why good Board Members remain calm and positive Then, Molly is joined by Mike Lin from Dangerous Ventures for a This Week in Climate Startups segment (22:00). You will learn: 1. What Mike learned from working at Makani Power (acquired by Google X) 2. The potential of "muscle-powered" energy and its limits 3. Lessons from the failed Potenco generator & One Laptop Per Child project 4. How Mike got himself fired from Apple for insubordination 5. Why Dangerous Ventures is backing "Dunkirk" climate solutions

Jason and Molly begin this double-header Sunday show with a VC Sunday School segment on top-tier VC behavior (01:38). You will learn: 1. How first-tier VCs compare to second-tier VCs 2. When VCs should intervene in a portfolio company 3. The difference between micromanaging and good governance 4. Jason's framework for ensuring alignment: Mission, Plan, Strategy, Tactics 5. Why good Board Members remain calm and positive Then, Molly is joined by Mike Lin from Dangerous Ventures for a This Week in Climate Startups segment (22:00). You will learn: 1. What Mike learned from working at Makani Power (acquired by Google X) 2. The potential of "muscle-powered" energy and its limits 3. Lessons from the failed Potenco generator & One Laptop Per Child project 4. How Mike got himself fired from Apple for insubordination 5. Why Dangerous Ventures is backing "Dunkirk" climate solutions Show Notes: (00:00) Jason and Molly tee up the show, Top VC vs. Second-tier VCs, Mike Lin from Dangerous Ventures (01:38) The behavior difference between a top tier VC and a second tier VC (09:23) Where VCs should actually intervene in a portfolio company, micromanaging vs. good governance (11:47) First Republic Bank - Discover what a long-term financial relationship can do for you. Visit https://firstrepublic.com/startup today to learn more. (12:50) What needs to be in alignment Mission, Plan, Strategy, Tactics (14:58) Why good Board Members are calm and positive (19:30) Jason and Molly intro the This Week in Climate Startups segment (20:40) Superside - Go to https://superside.com/twist to get $3000 or more in credits when you sign up for an annual subscription (22:00) Mike Lin from Dangerous Ventures discusses his previous startup experience at Makani Power (26:09) Can muscle-powered energy come back? (27:57) Pulling Power from the Sky: The Story of Makani (30:56) Notion - Go to https://Notion.so and use promo code TWIST to get $250 off its annual team plan (32:28) Lessons from Mike's time as the founder of Fenix, which was bringing power to low income economies, and the lessons from the failed Potenco generator & One Laptop Per Child project (36:35) How Fenix rose out of the ashes of his previous startup, Fenix's smart battery (39:55) Why Mike Lin was fired as an Apple contractor for insubordination (43:39) Who is going to actually solve the climate crisis? (46:15) Mike's ambition at Dangerous Ventures and why they are backing "Dunkirk" climate solutions (53:43) Managing a micro-fund and using SPVs to build initial momentum Check out Dangerous Ventures: https://www.dangerous.co/ FOLLOW Mike: https://twitter.com/tweetmikelin FOLLOW Jason: https://linktr.ee/calacanis FOLLOW Molly: https://twitter.com/mollywood

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Do you remember the One Laptop Per Child program? What went wrong, and what can we learn from the program's failure? What are the potential pitfalls of charismatic technology, and how can we avoid them when introducing students to programming? This week on the show, former guest Al Sweigart and author Morgan Ames are here to talk about her book "The Charisma Machine - The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child."

On this episode of Leading Lines, producer Cliff Anderson brings us an interview with Morgan Ames, author of The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop Per Child, published in 2019 by MIT Press. One Laptop Per Child, or OLPC, was a non-profit initiative launched in 2005 to bring low-cost laptops to children in developing countries, under the assumption that doing so would transform education in those countries. In the interview, Morgan Ames talks about the origin of OLPC, the challenges the program faced, and its legacy on computing and education. Links • The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child - https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/charisma-machine • Morgan Ames faculty page - https://cstms.berkeley.edu/people/morgan-ames/ • Morgan Ames' website - https://morganya.org/ • @morgangames on Twitter - https://twitter.com/morgangames • Logo in your browser, https://rmmh.github.io/papert/static • History of MIT's Logo computer programming environment - https://el.media.mit.edu/logo-foundation/what_is_logo/history.html

In the first episode of With Intent, Kristin Gecan talks to Morgan Ames, author of The Charisma Machine, about One Laptop Per Child—a hugely ambitious, or as Morgan defines it, charismatic—project with good intentions: to bring a laptop to every child in the developing world.We talk about why that project failed, how it connects to utopianism, and what design might learn from it all. Morgan is a 2021 Latham fellow at the Institute of Design.

On July 24th,  I had the chance to speak with Markos Lemma of iceaddis about his Tech Journey on Habesha in Tech, a Clubhouse club.  Markos has an amazing tech career that started with his first start up that was aimed at working with travel agencies which got him paid ETB 500. He worked hard to build his career. He have spent a part of his career working at One Laptop Per Child and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH (aka GIZ).  He is well known for cofounding a startup, iceaddis – Ethiopia's first innovation hub & tech startups incubator. The team celebrated a 10th year anniversary of their #startup. iceaddis have helped more than 160 startups. iceaddis isn't going to be limited to Addis Abeba rather planning to expand to other cities in Ethiopia, icehawasa is next, and Germany and many more to come.  Markos have worked with multiple other initiatives that are working towards education, clean water and other important project to support the communities in Ethiopia. I have learnt so much from talking to Markos as he was very open to share his past not only the success but also the failures. I believe you will learn from our conversation. Have a listen! Join the Club: https://ios.clubhouse.com/club/habesha-in-tech

My guest today is Tanya Rabourn. Tanya is a design strategist and researcher based in Dubai. Her focus is on service innovation for social impact. In this conversation, we discuss the role of ethnographic research in understanding the people and cultures served by design. Listen to the full conversation Download episode 45   Show notes Tanya Rabourn on LinkedIn United Arab Emirates (UAE) United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) The University of Texas Mercy Corps Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Service Design One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) A Sociology of Monsters: Essays on power, technology, and domination by John Law Some show notes may include Amazon affiliate links. I get a small commission for purchases made through these links. Read the full transcript Jorge: So, Tanya, welcome to the show. Tanya: Thank you. About Tanya Jorge: For folks who don't know you, can you please tell us about yourself? Tanya: Sure. I'm a design strategist and a researcher and I'm currently based in the UAE in Dubai. And I started out as a web designer back in the nineties, after I got my Masters in Information Science. I've been an information architect and I've been a user experience designer, and my focus right now is on research that takes an ethnographic approach to understanding user's needs and aspirations. Jorge: I know that you have relatively recently moved to the UAE, right? Tanya: Yes, actually, I think I've been here for two years now, though, it's really flown by. Jorge: You are one of the people who I follow on various social networks and feel like I traveled the world vicariously through your feed. Before the UAE, you've been in several other different parts of the world, right? Tanya: Yes. Well, let's see. I think it was around 2012 when I first moved to East Africa, to work with a US-based NGO in Uganda, who needed a UX designer. And I was there, I think for about two and a half years. And I continue to consult, working with another company, in Myanmar, where I was doing roughly the same thing, which was design strategy and research for social impact projects. And after Myanmar, I was based in Thailand, but I did work in a number of different countries often for UNCDF, the United Nations Capital Development Fund, sponsored by them, in conjunction with various other organizations. And that took me to a number of different countries, short term, such as the Solomon Islands, Tanzania. And I also did some research in Thailand, and a lot of those projects involved looking at financial inclusion. And so, my projects there would be to provide design strategy and research with the end users. Jorge: Is my understanding correct that your background is in ethnography? Tanya: So, I did some graduate work in anthropology when I was at the University of Texas, and there I was able to get some formal training in qualitative research and I was really able to hone my skills in that area. But I've always really been interested in what ethnography can do for design and the rigor that it can provide in our research. Jorge: When we bandy these terms about like ethnography, anthropology… I think that some folks listening in might not be up to speed on the differences between those. How do you define ethnography? Tanya: So, ethnography would be the study of practices and how different cultures engage in those practices. There was a period of time when, of course, people who originally did ethnography thought of it as studying people in developing countries. In countries very different from their own. But eventually people realized these tools that we have, we can use to study our own culture and practices within our own culture. And we can do what they called “studying up,” which meant that we could do things like we could go into companies and understand how they function as an organization. How people become members of that organization and engage in those practices. And it gives us a lens onto power relationships and all sorts of different ways to look at how people work together. Applying ethnography to design Jorge: Can you give us an example of how ethnographic insights could influence a design project? Tanya: Sure. So, often a design project begins when we want to find opportunities for creating something. And the perfect inspiration is to find a particular group of people who you are designing for and understand what their needs are, what their pain points are, but also what their aspirations are and what they find delightful, and that can become inspiration for new ideas. And so, in order to understand that, we can use a lot of different tools that we have. Observation, work practice analysis, interviewing. And through using these methods, we can come up with some insights that are actionable in terms of coming up with new services or designs. Jorge: I'm assuming that because of your background in web design and UX design, a lot of these insights get applied towards design projects that result in digital systems. Is that right? Tanya: Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. I've actually been able to work on a number of different projects that we're designing for people and what they were designing for them were services that did not have a digital component. In fact, one of the most recent projects I worked on… I was with Mercy Corps in Uganda, and this was at the end of last year, the beginning of this year and what they were creating in the refugee settlements in Western Uganda was these places that they were calling “innovation centers,” which were places that the refugees could go to and they could learn different skills. They could use it as a gathering place but of course, when I first went there, they weren't quite sure what it was that they wanted to do with this. They just knew that there was this need, but they needed to understand better what the refugees themselves wanted to do within these places. It's very common to do what's called a needs assessment in the NGO world. And they have been adopting human centered design practices to supplement that because then that can take these needs assessments and make a lot of these insights actionable in the design process. Jorge: Can you share the outcome of that project? What was the result of the needs assessment of what the refugees wanted? Tanya: Sure. Some of the things that came about in that project involved the sort of skills that they would like to learn. Because, what happens in an environment like that is, of course, there's someone who's looking at the markets themselves to find out what skills would be useful in terms of, earning income and creating an economy in that area. But also, there are certain intrinsic aspirations that the refugees themselves have as to what they would like to learn how to do. My focus was a lot on how they preferred to make money. The sort of professions that they had back at… most of them were from the DRC. So, the sort of professions that they engaged in before they came to Uganda, understanding that. And also thinking about when they're not working, how do they like to spend their time? What did they do for fun? What do they like to do that's creative and makes them feel inspired? A lot of what we learned had to do with them wanting access to computers for particular purposes, for creating things, for creating websites, for creating movies. For doing all sorts of things… board games were super popular too. One of the things that seemed to have a lot of potential was this idea of the innovation center as a place where people could come, even when there weren't courses or anything formal being held, but it was a place where they could come and socialize and play board games and do that sort of thing too. All of these insights and ideas, they were able to take and put them together with what they had learned that might have potential in terms of the economy in the area. And they were able to come up with services and courses and things like that to hold within these centers. Jorge: That sounds great. It sounds like a service design project, right? Tanya: Yes, very much. A lot of the projects I've worked on digital and otherwise, service design has been very important. And that is great, because that means that there's quite a lot of research that happens with not just the end users, but with everyone involved in the process. And to me, that is core to human centered design: that you're looking at all humans within that system. The role of language Jorge: When we were talking about ethnography and what it is, you spoke of looking at different power relationships between folks. I'm curious about the role of language in all of this. Tanya: Oh, yes. Well, unfortunately, I only speak English. I really admire people who can speak multiple languages, but unfortunately, I cannot. So, whenever I am doing research with people who are more comfortable speaking a language other than English, I'm usually working with an interpreter or I have a research partner who speaks the local language. I've gotten very comfortable with that dynamic, and there's quite a lot of things that I don't think that much about. But I think that it's just evolved over time, this rhythm that you can get into with your partner when you're doing, for example, a qualitative interview and there's some interpretation going on. And so, I usually have an interpreter. And one thing that's key in that sort of dynamic is the interpreter needs to know how often to turn to you and tell you what that person has just said. And they also need to know how to interpret it so you don't just get the gist of it. You really need to understand what they're saying in order to ask that follow up question. So, it is a little bit more complex of course, than just having a one on one interview in English. But I've had some amazing research partners. I've had some amazing interpreters that I've had the privilege to work with. And so that's always really important. Jorge: I had the opportunity last year to work on a research project in China, and the dynamic that you're describing is one that I've experienced firsthand. Obviously, the language comes into focus when talking about interviews, but I would expect that there's also observational aspects to the research, right? Tanya: Definitely. Yes. So, the other thing that's key is my research partner — who is usually from that country or has lived there for a long time — we often have a debrief afterwards and things that I wouldn't be attuned to, my partner can point out to me. And things that perhaps my partner wouldn't have noticed because they have been there for so long, it just seems normal, I can point out to him. And I think through that we get the best of both worlds. Jorge: You grew up in the US, right? Tanya: I did. Yes. Now, when I was very young, my father worked for Lockheed Martin and we spent about two and a half years in Iran. And so, my mother was kind of amused that I would end up so close by now that I'm in the UAE. Patterns in how people organize things Jorge: The reason I'm asking about your culture of origin is because it sounds to me like you've had the incredible opportunity to very closely observe differences between cultures and you've experienced lots of different cultures. And I'm wondering — given your background also in information architecture and understanding how people organize information — I'm wondering about any either patterns or things that you have discovered that are common to different cultures and the way folks organize information, or perhaps the opposite, things that might be major differences, right? Tanya: Well, one of my favorite things to do whenever I go to another country is to go grocery shopping, which I usually have to do anyway. And that's always fascinating to see how food is organized in a way that makes sense to that particular place. You know, sometimes it seems to make sense to me coming from the US, and sometimes it makes no sense at all. As an information architect, I've found that to be one of the first things that I really like to do whenever I arrive in a country for the first time. And that's the first thing that comes to mind is the organization of grocery stores. I always pay really close attention to because it does give you a little bit of a window into how people think about things that are really important and fundamental in their lives, such as food. When I do research… one of the things that I quickly learned from one of my research partners who was very good at this was, despite my background of having lived in New York for years, it's not a good idea just to hop into the interview and just like immediately start pounding them with questions; you want to ease into it. I have a little bit of small talk, maybe make a few jokes. But one of the things that I that's very common, no matter where you are, is people love to talk about their children. That's always a topic that you can easily break the ice with, no matter where you are. And so, I think that, no matter what country you're in, it's always top-of-mind. Whether the person you're talking to has a child of their own, or whether they have nieces or nephews or whoever it is just talking about the local schools, how the children are doing the area, what they're aspirations are for the next generation… that's always something that people enjoy talking about. The role of the researcher Jorge: That brings up a question for me about the role of the researcher, as let's say, kind of like an impartial observer — and especially when working through an interpreter — how much do you sense they open up to the research process? I'm asking it because my expectation would be that folks from some cultures would be more forthcoming than others. To what degree do you want to ingratiate yourself with the person that you're interviewing versus trying to… I don't know if to call it an impartial observer or… remain more distant? Tanya: Well, I don't really believe in being an impartial observer. I think one thing that we always have to be cognizant of, especially when doing qualitative research is, we need to be very aware of our own biases and the fact that we can't step out of who we are. You know, in qualitative research, we are the research instrument. And so, it's good to be very self-aware. And I understand no matter where I go, I'm going to be seen as… you know, I'm a woman, I'm from the US, and that needs to be noted. And of course, I think it's good practice whenever writing up a report and insights to not write it from this sort of God's-eye-view. And so, I really believe in writing first person and also including in the description of the context who was there and what the dynamic was. I think that's really important. As far as ingratiating myself, I think that one of the first rules needs to be: be a good guest. I've always tried to keep that top of mind, no matter how, let's say, stressful the situation is… there may be a time crunch; I'm trying to get this research done so we can stay on schedule… but I think it's really important to stay in the moment, and think about the fact that I'm lucky enough that someone has invited me into their home to see how they live, to talk to me about whatever the topic is, things that might be personal. I feel like, there's a big responsibility that comes with that, but I think that that's always my first rule, is just be a good guest. Remote facilitation Jorge: This is so interesting and so insightful to hear of your perspective in having the opportunity to go and learn from the lives of these people who have different cultures than your own. I'm wondering how doing this work has changed the way that you deal with your own information environments? Tanya: So, well, let's see. I find that, it's important to be flexible, because often, the best way to really facilitate collaboration in a design team is to move to whatever tools everyone else is using, right? I have my own tools that I like to use to organize my information if it's just something for me. But I found the more flexible I can be and hopping onto like new tools and just quickly acclimatizing myself to them, the faster I can start collaborating with new people. So, I try to be flexible, even though I do have my favorite tools. And so, I think that even before the current moment where everyone is working remotely, I was very comfortable with working remotely just because out of a necessity, sometimes I would be a member of a distributed team. And often we would be in areas with very low bandwidth and poor connectivity, but we would find ways to collaborate at a distance. Jorge: Have you found any tips or things that our listeners might take away from that, that would help them be more sensitive to the needs of the other as they're collaborating remotely, now in this kind of crazy pandemic time? Tanya: I think it's really important for a team to have a high level of trust, because collaboration is greatly facilitated by being very open about sharing what you're working on. The faster that you can share, the better collaboration will be. And if there's a high level of trust on the team, you don't have to feel like, “Oh, I can't share this with the rest of the team until it's perfect.” So, the higher that level of trust and comfort with working in the open, the better collaboration is. Imposing the culture of design You know, one of the things that I have spent the last several years thinking about is, as I work with very diverse teams, we do collaborate very easily because we have a common culture, right? And that's culture defined as a common knowledge and set of practices. And that's because our design practices, and the way we develop technology, have been diffused around the world. And in order to engage in a lot of these globalized practices, out of necessity, people have learned ways of working that might have developed first in the US or in the West. Part of what I've been doing, as I've worked on these projects, is of course to provide any sort of coaching or instruction about how to do human-centered design or how to do user experience design. And at the same time that I'm doing this, on one hand, I'm giving them the tools to participate in creating this technology, not just using it, but also creating it. But at the same time, I'm imposing a certain set of practices that perhaps doesn't need to be the only way to do things, right? And so there's always this tension between empowering people to participate in these design practices that will allow them to — at a larger scale — create the technologies they use. But at the same time, it can be just another way of imposing outside practices and silencing local ones. Jorge: So, what I'm hearing there is that even though the people who are collaborating in the project, let's say, come from a wide range of different cultures, they are in some ways creating a new culture by the means that they're coming together. Tanya: It can be looked at that way. Because of course, no matter where you are, you might bring in a particular framework, but nothing ever happens in the idealized way that design is usually thought of as happening. There are always local ways of doing things. But you know, we still come in and we say, “Okay, here are the five phases of design thinking, and so therefore, first we're going to do this and then we're going to do that.” Right? And that gives people the sort of knowledge to be able to engage in those practices themselves, right? And, have a voice in the design community at large, right? But at the same time, this is not the only way of doing design. Design has been happening in local, communities forever, right? And so, there are multiple ways of doing design. But whenever we start to engage in creating a new service or a new technology, often we have these particular frameworks that we want to bring in with us, and we think of it as upskilling and helping people become better designers, but it's still bringing in an outside way of doing things that perhaps wouldn't be necessary. But at the same time, it gives people a voice in that process. You know, one of the things that I always think back to is… it's probably 15 years ago now, when One Laptop Per Child was something that was being brought to a lot of different countries. And I think when it was first proposed to the government of India, they refused it because… it's not that they weren't sympathetic to the idea of having a computer that was more about play and a more constructivist way of learning, that wasn't necessarily something they were disputing. But they can look and see in a globalized world that what people needed to know was for example, how to use Windows if they wanted to participate in that economy, right? So, they were saying, “Just because we might be considered a developing country, why can we not also teach our children how to use these tools that would give them a chance to participate in a global economy?” And so, there is sort of that tension there of imposing outside tools, because it's the only way to do things, right? But at the same time, really not allowing that much local variation. Jorge: That's such a great observation, because it's almost like in the One Laptop Per Child project, the solution came kind of predefined from outside. And what I'm hearing in the objection that you've brought up here that the Indian government had to the project was that it was the wrong outside technology. Because Windows itself is not something that originated in India, but in some ways it's like Windows represents the global culture of work. Tanya: Exactly. Jorge: It's like, “You're asking my folks to learn this new culture, but it's not the culture that is going to necessarily open the doors of work for them.” Tanya: Right. And, you know, and their argument wasn't, ” We have our own way of doing things.” They still wanted to accept an outside way of doing things, and you could actually argue that it was a colonialist way of doing things and bringing in an outside force that they had to engage with in order to participate and that in itself is questionable. But they were willing to push for that because they wanted to be part of a globalized economy. Jorge: Right. It feels like it's a discussion of great import to all of us, right? Like we're all asked to some degree or another make choices about the systems that we interact with. And it almost requires accepting the mantle of being part of this culture. I know a lot of people, for example, who have made the choice to leave Facebook. And that's almost like renouncing that part of the online experience, which is a conscious choice on their part, right? Tanya: Yeah. Yes. I mean, there's always a little bit of tension there in Facebook and similar experiences where you ask yourself, if I stay, can I make the system better? Or do I make a bigger difference if I don't participate? Jorge: Yeah, and at some point, there is some kind of mental arithmetic about the costs and the benefits of remaining there. Not unlike the costs of learning the One Laptop Per Child thing, versus the lack of benefit of being able to learn Windows, right? To be part of the global workforce. Tanya: Yes. And one of the things that I also find myself thinking a lot about is: as a user experience designer, as a researcher, one of the things that we do is we come back, and we have these insights that we then apply to design. And we say that we're speaking for our users but there's a quote that I often think about, which I think is from A Sociology of Monsters, “to speak for others is to first silence those in who's name we speak?” And so, I think that one of the things that we often have to think about is, to say that we're representing users, means that, in a way, we're silencing them. And that is something that is questionable, and whatever we can do to bring in more participatory design practices, is preferable. But the first thing that we have to do is just be aware of what we're doing as design researchers. Closing Jorge: Hear, hear. That strikes me as a great place to wrap up our conversation, Tanya. Thank you for that admonition; it's definitely worth keeping in mind. So, where can folks follow up with you should they want to get in touch with you? Tanya: So, they can find me on LinkedIn. Jorge: Great. And I will include that in the show notes. So, thank you so much for being with us today, Tanya. Tanya: Thank you for having me.

Welcome to Episode 5 of the Brutal South Podcast. My guest this week is Dr. James N. Gilmore, assistant professor of media and technology studies at Clemson University.I met Jimmy at the University of South Carolina in the freshman Honors College dorm, which was an old building full of lovable weirdos. He had a film criticism blog going at the time that I really loved, and when I became an editor at the Daily Gamecock student newspaper, I convinced him to start writing reviews for us. I considered it a coup.Jimmy went to grad school, then he went to more grad school, and he became an expert in subjects like wearable technology, digital infrastructure, and Southern cultural studies. Every few months now, it seems like, he announces the title of a new paper he's just published, and each one is a certified club banger.I invited him onto the podcast to talk about wearable tracking devices, parenting, protest, and policing, all of which have surprising common threads. As a bonus, he sent me a recent article he had published about a Google data center that was built right in my backyard, and we talked about that too.You can follow Dr. Gilmore on Twitter at @JamesNGilmore or visit his website at JamesNGilmore.com. One book he recommended during the podcast is The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop Per Child by Morgan G. Ames, which you can find at your local bookstore or via the Brutal South Bookshop page.Here are the articles and papers we discussed in this episode:Sen, Ari. “UNC Campus Police Used Geofencing Tech to Monitor Antiracism Protestors.” NBCNews.com, NBCUniversal News Group, 21 Dec. 2019, www.nbcnews.com/news/education/unc-campus-police-used-geofencing-tech-monitor-antiracism-protestors-n1105746.Gilmore, J. N. (2019). Securing the kids: Geofencing and child wearables. Convergence. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354856519882317Gilmore, J. N., & Troutman, B. (2020). Articulating infrastructure to water: Agri-culture and Google’s South Carolina data center. International Journal of Cultural Studies. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367877920913044The image at the top of the page is Colonial Policy by Pavel Filonov, c. 1926. This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at brutalsouth.substack.com/subscribe

The Charisma Machine by Morgan G. Ames OLPC XO (Wikipedia) Selling a Charismatic Technology (LA Review of Books) The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley (HBO documentary) Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou Follow us at @culturescast, and our hosts on Twitter at @adrianhon @naomialderman @andrhia We're on Mastodon at @adrianhon@mastodon.social @naomialderman@mastodon.social @andrhia@wandering.shop

Ryan spoke to our hosts, Erik, Dave, and Jeff, about his own personal journey that has inspired his following his life's passion to bring recognition, agency, and awareness to the stories of migrants and refugees around the world. Born in Kuwait to refugee parents, Ryan Letada was raised in the Philippines before his family immigrated to the Bronx.  His journey from failing student to CEO of his own organization has taught him a thing or two about luck, grit, and survival. While living and going to school in the Bronx, Ryan was awarded the Posse Foundation Scholarship. This recognition paved the way for a Fulbright, which he then used to launch the One Laptop Per Child program in the Philippines. His team launched and piloted the country’s first one-to-one digital learning program in rural communities.Today, as the founder and CEO of NextDayBetter, a media company that exists to humanize the migrant experience. With the goal of creating the world’s largest library of migrant stories, the company seeks to reimagine migrants, immigrants, and refugees as a benefit to humanity. Its agency arm, NextDayBetter Studios, partners with mission-aligned brands (such as AARP and Mailchimp) to launch award-winning campaigns that engage multicultural, immigrant communities.Continuing his work as an entrepreneur and storyteller, Ryan also serves as a Google Next Gen Policy Fellow focused on advocating for inclusive tech policies. He is a Fulbright Scholar, Posse Foundation Alumnus, and serves on the Board of Trustees of Wheaton College Massachusetts.Follow Ryan and NextDayBetter here:On Twitter: https://twitter.com/rletada On Instagram: ​www.instagram.com/rletada  ​& www.instagram.com/nextdaybetter On Facebook: ​www.facebook.com/nextdaybetter Check out the Website: ​www.nextdaybetter.comAdditional Reading:Check out Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari 

為您介紹「有創意的資本主義」的提案：「微額信貸」、「One Laptop Per Child」、「紅色計畫」， 是把「賺錢」和「做好事」結合起來的例子。歡迎收聽

為您介紹「有創意的資本主義」的提案：「微額信貸」、「One Laptop Per Child」、「紅色計畫」， 是把「賺錢」和「做好事」結合起來的例子。歡迎收聽

On the season one finale of the podcast we look into the global phenomenon known as One Laptop Per Child. It was a project that took off like a rocket ship in 2006, raising enormous amounts of money, grabbing the attention of world leaders and making headlines on all the major news outlets. How did a nonprofit take on the audacious goal of getting every child on the planet a laptop? And over a decade later, how far did they get in improving the education and lives of the poor?

Today I’m chatting with Jonathon Verk, CEO & Co-founder of Hyphenus, the pioneering provider of Intelligent Dispute Resolution (IDR) technology. Their flagship product, coParenter, helps separating, divorced and never-married parents predict, prevent and resolve conflict, allowing them to make better coParenting decisions for their kids. In addition to his day jobs, Jonathan has devoted himself to social justice organizer, CMO of Nicholas Negreponte’s One Laptop Per Child and an advisor to Vice President Al Gore. He founded Hyphenus after experiencing the impact family litigation can have on families. Today we’re chatting about: How to communicate with your ex about co-parenting using an app Keeping your child’s needs at the center of how you’re navigating co-parenting Avoiding going to court for co-parenting issues What to do when your ex doesn’t want to communicate   Connect with Jonathan Verk: Website: https://coparenter.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanverk Twitter: @coParenter Get a copy of Jen’s book, “Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda: A Divorce Coach’s Guide to Staying Married” here.

Tomi Davies is our welcome guest this week. Tomi discusses his awareness of a strong social responsibility and how he feels this is knitted together with his commercial and technological talents. The President of the African Business Angel Network (ABAN) and co-founder of the Lagos Angel Network (LAN), he sits on the board at MBO Capital and TextNigeria. Tomi has outstanding experience building large-scale, technology enabled systems projects in the US, Europe and Africa, which was gained from a variety of executive leadership roles with influential global brands including Ernst & Young, Marks & Spencer, Elf Aquitaine, Sapient and the One Laptop Per Child project. Tomi’s personal goal is to help "drive the development of Africa through entrepreneurship that is creating social and economic value using technology”.

This podcast looks at lessons learnt from the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project in context of grassroots communities. You can read the original post here.

With her stunning breakthroughs in neural imaging, Mary Lou Jepsen is making the brain readable (and stimulatable) in real time. That will revolutionize brain study and brain medicine, but what about brain communication? Could a direct high-resolution interface to the brain lead to what might be called practical mental telepathy? What are the prospects for brain enhancement? What are the ethics of direct brain reading and intervention? Mary Lou Jepsen founds programs and companies on the hairy edges of physics, invents solutions and takes them to prototype all the way through to high volume mass production. She's done this at Intel, MIT’s Media Lab, One Laptop Per Child, Pixel Qi, Google X, and Facebook (Oculus). She is the founder and CEO of Openwater, which is "devising a new generation of imaging technologies, with high resolution and low costs, enabling medical diagnoses and treatments, and a new era of fluid and affordable brain-to-computer communications."

Visionary technology futurist and the driving force behind One Laptop per Child. Nicholas Negroponte is one of the foremost futurists of our time with a distinguished history of valuable insights on innovation, technology and their impact on business that few can match. Professor Negroponte was the first to predict and describe how digitalization would affect every industry in every part of the world. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Being Digital. He is the founding chairman of MIT's Media Lab, one of the world's leading interdisciplinary research centers. Today Negroponte is the driving force behind One Laptop per Child, a project to bring durable, affordable and innovative computers to children worldwide. Join us for an intriguing conversation with a world class futurist.

Yves Behar is a Swiss-born entrepreneur and ArtCenter alum who has become the design world's reigning rockstar. As founder of the industrial design and branding firm, fuseproject, Yves has become a leading force in forging the future of sustainable technology. Equally important to Fuseproject's business model is a deep commitment to the social good. Yves regularly partners with nonprofits to create groundbreaking products like One Laptop Per Child, See Better to Learn Better, and more. In this episode, ArtCenter President Lorne Buchman speaks to Yves about his most innovative products, his inclination to question conventional wisdom, the ways in which the DIY punk movement inspired his passion for making and his commitment to designing products that prioritize human connection over time spent with screens.  Learn more about Yves' work: One Laptop Per Child See Better to Learn Better Samsung's The Frame Snoo Smart Crib Aura Powered Suit

Prof. Robert Hacker​ talks about how governments have been concentrating on access to information as if that was the new panacea, but they have not realized that it is information itself what has value far beyond just providing access to connectivity.Also... what will the next step of real social impact and entrepreneurship be?On this, he sends a little message to the CEO of Evernote​EDUCATIONMBA Finance Beta Gamma Sigma Columbia University in the City of New York​BA Philosophy Hamilton College​PUBLICATIONS - Scaling Social Entrepreneurship: Lessons Learned from One Laptop Per Child​; 2015-Billion Dollar Company: An entrepreneur’s guide to business models for high growth companies; 2007OTHER - Adjunct Professor— Florida International University​ 2005-to present; entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship - Adjunct Instructor— MIT Sloan School of Management​ 2011-to present IAP; social entrepreneurship - Adjunct Instructor--- University of Miami​ 2015-to present; social entrepreneurship - Faculty--- Goldman Sachs​ 10,000 Small Businesses--National Program and Miami, FL 2014-to present - Guest Lecturer – Harvard Business School​, IESE Business School​, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)​, and other universities - Blog: Sophisticated Finance http://sophisticatedfinance.typepad.com/ - Book website: https://lnkd.in/eZ5datE

Prof. Robert Hacker​ talks about how governments have been concentrating on access to information as if that was the new panacea, but they have not realized that it is information itself what has value far beyond just providing access to connectivity.Also... what will the next step of real social impact and entrepreneurship be?On this, he sends a little message to the CEO of Evernote​EDUCATIONMBA Finance Beta Gamma Sigma Columbia University in the City of New York​BA Philosophy Hamilton College​PUBLICATIONS - Scaling Social Entrepreneurship: Lessons Learned from One Laptop Per Child​; 2015-Billion Dollar Company: An entrepreneur’s guide to business models for high growth companies; 2007OTHER - Adjunct Professor— Florida International University​ 2005-to present; entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship - Adjunct Instructor— MIT Sloan School of Management​ 2011-to present IAP; social entrepreneurship - Adjunct Instructor--- University of Miami​ 2015-to present; social entrepreneurship - Faculty--- Goldman Sachs​ 10,000 Small Businesses--National Program and Miami, FL 2014-to present - Guest Lecturer – Harvard Business School​, IESE Business School​, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)​, and other universities - Blog: Sophisticated Finance http://sophisticatedfinance.typepad.com/ - Book website: https://lnkd.in/eZ5datE

Yves is the founder of Fuseproject and one of the most influential industrial designers of our generation, having also lead teams at the iconic firms frog design and Lunar Design. His clients include Herman Miller, GE, Puma, Kodak, Samsung, Prada and a host of others, and pioneered the paradigm of designer/entrepreneur as the co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of smart lock company August and CCO at Jawbone. He’s also a passionate advocate for sustainability and social good, contributing to a variety of projects like One Laptop Per Child, Ver Bien para Aprender Mejor and the SPRING Accelerator program. Today on the podcast, * He talks about how - contrary to what many think - the best way for designers to get a chance to have a seat at the table is to double down on their craft and become world-class at one thing * We talk about how to turn off your brain when needed, quieting that relentless critical voice that all creators have * And we also get into more detail on the evolution of design culture in the US- how companies like Apple and Target helped make designers more visible and more valued as core members of the team at the center of the business Enjoy! Show notes and links for this episode can be found at www.chasejarvis.com/podcast. This podcast is brought to you by CreativeLive. CreativeLive is the world's largest hub for online creative education in photo/video, art/design, music/audio, craft/maker and the ability to make a living in any of those disciplines. They are high quality, highly curated classes taught by the world’s top experts -- Pulitzer, Oscar, Grammy Award winners, New York Times best selling authors and the best entrepreneurs of our times.

James Cameron of One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) tells us about Forth, science fiction, and laptops. We have some tickets for ARM's mbed Connect conference is Oct 24, 2016 in Santa Clara. Will you be in the area? Want to go? Contact us if you want one of our free tickets! (There are still some tickets remaining.)  One Laptop Per Child is one.laptop.org.  Some getting started information on Forth: Mitch Bradley's Forth and Open Firmware Lessons James has been writing about putting C Forth on a Teensy (more on the Teensy from the creator's site). He also has a post on using Forth to snoop the Milo Champions Band's BLE.  James is Quozl on most sites that require a unique ID (such as Github:  https://github.com/quozl). This is from a book called Quozl by Alan Dean Foster. The other older-sci-fi reference was to the Pern books by Anne McCaffery, specifically to the White Dragon. 

Jessica Coulter is a Creative Director/Copywriter at BBDO New York where she has spent the last several years creating iconic campaigns for brands including Foot Locker, HBO, Snickers, Lowe's, Twix, AT&T and FedEx, among others.  Prior to BBDO, Jessica worked at Saatchi & Saatchi New York developing memorable creative campaigns for JCPenney, One Laptop Per Child, Progresso Soup and others.Her work has been recognized by Cannes Lions, The One Show, Clios, AICP, Effies and Communication Arts. Jessica is one of 2016 Business Insiders' 30 Most Creative Women in Advertising. She was recently named one of 10 rising female stars in advertising by The 3% Conference and The One Club. She was also invited to attend The United State of Women Summit put on by The Obamas this year.  When she's not knocking out award-winning work for brands, Jessica enjoys writing comedy and is very intentional about creating a wholesome home environment for her husband, their young daughter and their dog, Walter. Jessica is also the only guest I'll likely ever host who has moonlighted as an NFL cheerleader, a world champion burlesque dancer as well as dong sketch comedy all while working as an advertising creative. 

Dr. Michail Bletsas, Research Scientist & the Director of Computing at MIT’s Media Lab was one of the founding members of the ‘One Laptop Per Child’ initiative, in 2005. He is a strong proponent of Connectivity, as he considers it is as necessary as our water supply; it provides the basis for communication, which he firmly believes distinguishes us humans from other complex species on this planet; it acted as the primary catalyst to help us “invent” social networking, law, religion, democracy and currency. He talks about the emerging, telephony and mobile, convergence; the EU and USA research environments versus that of China’s, and how the latter’s lack of institutions may prove critical in the failure or success equation. Finally, he discusses the OLPC legacy, as the result of an elaborate demo, conducted by MIT, ever. Interviewed by Yannis Rizopoulos for Tech Talks Central.

It’s far easier to predict the future when you are helping make and distribute it. Nicholas Negroponte exemplifies this with his notable accomplishments, including co-founding the MIT Media Lab, being the first investor in WIRED magazine, and co-founding the One Laptop Per Child program. His 01995 book Being Digital gave a glimpse into the world we now occupy--complete with wireless, touch screens, ebooks and personalized news. In this talk, “Beyond Digital”, Negroponte will once again give us a glimpse of the possibilities that lie ahead.

Catallaxy describes a "self-organizing system of voluntary co-operation" -Friedrich Hayek Topic: A doctoral candidate named John, who currently teaches in Hawaii, calls in to the after-show to discuss education as a self-organizing system. He references a TED Talk by Sugata Mitra and some interesting outcomes from the One Laptop Per Child project in Ethiopia. Excerpt: "We left the boxes in the village. Closed. Taped shut. No instruction, no human being. I thought, the kids will play with the boxes! Within four minutes, one kid not only opened the box, but found the on/off switch. He'd never seen an on/off switch. He powered it up. Within five days, they were using 47 apps per child per day. Within two weeks, they were singing ABC songs [in English] in the village. And within five months, they had hacked Android. Some idiot in our organization or in the Media Lab had disabled the camera! And they figured out it had a camera, and they hacked Android." This is a portion the 11-1-12 After School (Sucks) Special. School Sucks is live on the Liberty Radio Network and UStream Thursdays at 10pm EST. Look Closer: Ethiopian kids hack OLPCs in 5 months with zero instruction http://dvice.com/archives/2012/10/ethiopian-kids.php Sugata Mitra: The child-driven education http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_the_child_driven_education.html Catallaxy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catallaxy

Silas Bernardoni is a co-operator of Roller Coaster Farm and an operations consultant specializing in the development and implementation of organizational strategies for organizations looking to transition out of a start-up mentality toward operations. He is also an advocate for family farming, sustainable agricultural practices, heritage genetics, preserving historic agricultural methodologies, empowering societies through the use of technology, improving the quality and accessibility of education throughout the world, and community scale renewable energy technologies. Roller Coaster Farm is a family-owned-and-operated 400 acre farm located in the rolling hills of southwest Wisconsin’s beautiful Driftless Area. The Bernardoni family has continually raised animals on the farm for over 30 years and is currently being operated by multiple generations of the family. Roller Coaster Farm raises grass fed, grass finished Highland beef and Katahdin lambs as well as pastured Tamworth pork. Roller Coaster Farm is firmly committed to the utilization of heritage breeds and natural farming methods that promote the health of their animals, their land, and their consumers. Silas has worked extensively with Paraguay Educa, a non-profit organization implementing a One Laptop Per Chid-themed project in Paraguay, to bring access to quality education to all Paraguayan children through the utilization of technology. His contributions to the organization consisted of the development of an organizational structure and operational strategy designed to maintain Paraguay Educa’s cutting edge deployment methodologies while the organization expanded country-wide. Family Farm Defenders: familyfarmers.org EatWild.com: eatwild.com GrassWorks: grassworks.org One Laptop Per Child: laptop.org Paraguay Educa: paraguayeduca.org

El Universo en un grano de arena La física establece que las leyes que rigen en un nivel tienen la propiedad de repetirse e influenciar en otros niveles. Este extraordinario comportamiento de la naturaleza hilvana y entreteje las acciones de los seres humanos y nos debe abocar, a científicos, investigadores y ciudadanos, al entendimiento de que la labor excepcional que se realice desde cada trinchera, aunada a la diversidad de estudios y prácticas, incidirá en un óptimo y provechoso resultado final; en un todo, perfecto y perfectible a la vez, para el bien común.

SONGS: 1) Yerzmyey 2) Johnny’s 99 Problems (But The Pot Of Gold Ain’t One) [DJ Schmolli] - Dropkick Murphys vs. Jay-Z 3) Kasabian - Secret Alphabets 4) Hot Chip - Transmission (Joy Division Cover) 5) Rise Up - Vodka Juniors LINKS: Tossestreger - TS collective: http://www.tossestreger.org/ Platform4: http://www.platform4.dk/ Debtocracy: http://debtocracy.gr/profile.html http://thepressproject.gr/ Kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/ Open Fest 2011: http://openfest.teipir.gr/ Creative Commons Greece: http://www.creativecommons.gr/ Creative Commons Denmark / Christian Villum: http://www.creativecommons.dk/ http://autofunk.dk/ Arduino + Arduino Documentary:arduino.cc http://www.vimeo.com/18539129 One Laptop Per Child: http://one.laptop.org/ ubuntu: http://www.ubuntu.com/ ScrapCast 8: Aalborg calling by leeturtle

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Amdahl's Law, de-worming, and the One Laptop Per Child initiative. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Visionary technology futurist and the driving force behind One Laptop per Child. Nicholas Negroponte is one of the foremost futurists of our time with a distinguished history of valuable insights on innovation, technology and their impact on business that few can match. Professor Negroponte was the first to predict and describe how digitalization would affect every industry in every part of the world. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Being Digital. He is the founding chairman of MIT's Media Lab, one of the world's leading interdisciplinary research centers. Today Negroponte is the driving force behind One Laptop per Child, a project to bring durable, affordable and innovative computers to children worldwide. Join us for an intriguing conversation with a world class futurist.

Classroom Device Excitement, The New Generation of Student Laptops; Best Education Podcast Contest Announced; A Block Buster Trend. In this episode news about HPs new laptop, Intels Classmate PC, The One Laptop Per Child project's XO, AND Innovations for Learning's TeacherMate. Visit website for details of 3rd Annual Best Education Podcast Contest form TTPOD! 3 awards- one each in 3 categories. Deadline July 5, 2008 Email submissions to teacherspodcastawards@gmail.com Update on Facebook happenings with Teachers Podcast. Free Adobe resource for graphic editing and organization. Check out our Podcasting for Teachers Book info and Mark's ISTE book coming out in July. Complete info always at teacherspodcast.org. Contact us at teacherspodcast@gmail.com or comment at the website/blog. We appreciate our great audience and fans as we provide them with More Ed Tech You Can Always Use Today and Tomorrow. Telephone message line: 201-693-4935. Produced and copyrighted by Transformation Education LLC, Gura and King, 2007-2008. Let us know your teaching and learning needs.

Aaron Kaplan und Chris Hager sind Teil des Teams OLPC Austria, das sich die Unterstützung von Projekten rund um den XO-Computer des "One Laptop Per Child"-Projektes auf die Fahne geschrieben hat. Im Gespräch mit Tim Pritlove erläutern sie die Zielsetzung von OLPC, die Geschichte und den aktuellen Stand des Projektes, die Technologie des XO-Computers und seines neuen User Interfaces "Sugar", den Möglichkeiten der Förderung für Entwickler in Europa, die mit dem XO-Computer interessante Projekte realisieren möchten, die Probleme bei der Umsetzung des Vertriebs, die Funktionalität des eingebauten 802.11s Wireless Mesh Networkings und wie man den XO als eBook verwenden kann.

Blogger and trendwatcher Vincent Everts showed up at the Bloghaus on opening night without his Segway, but sporting a “One Laptop Per Child” OLPC “XO”. The machine, developed by Nicholas Negroponte’s nonprofit One Laptop Per Child project, and touted as “rugged, durable, and child-friendly, inside and out,” was not so friendly to Everts in this […]

Click here to download this episode: Click here to subscribe to the podcast: Tinytalk is a podcast about MUSHes and other text-based virtual worlds, and the players who play them. In this episode: [00:00] Intro [00:54] My 2008 MUSH resolutions [03:52] Staff rotation [06:54] One Laptop Per Child Links to stuff mentioned in this episode: Indie Press Revolution) (a place to find and buy indie rpgs) Nethack wiki The One Laptop Per Child donation site The OLPC wiki (a good place for developers to start) Obviously Grimy's Des mélodies à faire danser les ours album If you have mushing questions you'd like answered, or suggestions for future shows, send email (or audio files) to tinytalk at javelin.pennmush.org. You can also leave a voice message at 206-333-1542. Tinytalk is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License .

Show 60 This And That Podcast80 minutes | 73.3 MBdownload mp3:   play right NOW:   Holy cow. Sorry for the long show. Next time I will bring a timer to the studio. Lots of topics today and this show marks the first show using my new equipment. I still don't have all the quirks figured out yet but at least we got the show out. Lots of topics today as you can imagine with 80 minutes! We comment about health, quirks, China, and the ever exploding information world that we live in. Promise to be within 60 minutes next time...Please vote for us on Podcast Alley through the button above (if you think we deserve your vote). It's a tiny effort but means a great deal for this little podcast. Also, do make sure to vote for the other podcasts you really like!Show Notes:Jeff's New iMacMost Expensive CitiesCoffee, Oh CoffeeIt's All About CarbsWriter's StrikeWhat Would You Do Without TV?Newspaper SubscriptionsInformation ExplosionBrittany's SpendingSenior Sex!Dressing The Middle Aged Including Mommy SweatersJeff's Pet PeeveCell Phones While DrivingLatest Political PollingGrowing Cost Of The WarOne Laptop Per ChildChinese ManufacturingFifty Ways To Beat The Reaper: I

In dieser Episode des BPSE Podcasts spreche ich mit Aaron Kaplan und Christoph Derndorfer von OLPC Austria. OLPC steht für "One Laptop per Child" und ist eine Initiative die vor wenigen Jahren vom MIT Media Lab gestartet wurde. Das Projekt ist auch unter dem Namen "100$ Laptop" bekannt geworden.Es ist ein faszinierendes aber auch umstrittenes Projekt, gleichzeitig ist auch viel Fehlinformation über das Projekt in Umlauf. OLPC Austria hat daher vorige Woche an der TU einen Vortrag zum Thema gehalten und wir wollen heute über das OLPC Projekt im allgemeinen aber im besonderen auch über technische Aspekte und die Herausforderungen im Software Engineering für das Gerät diskutieren.Dies ist besonders auch für Studenten der TU und andere interessant, weil es vielfältige Möglichkeiten der Mitarbeit (auch im Rahmen von TU Praktika, DAs...) gibt.Wir diskutieren im wesentlichen folgende Punkte:Kernidee des Projektes?Zielgruppe des OLPC?Haben die Kinder in Entwicklungsländern keine anderen Probleme als fehlende Laptops?Technische Aspekte:NetzwerkHardwareDisplayRobustheitWie ist der aktuelle Status der Software?Herausforderungen der Software Entwicklung für das GerätUsability"Limitierungen" der HardwareEffektive Nutzung der innovativen Hardware FeaturesLokalisationDokumentation?!Wie sieht die Software-Infrastruktur des Gerätes aus (Programmierumgebung)Best-Practices im SE Prozess?Was kann man noch tun? Motivation für die Mitarbeit?Squeak und OLPCActivity ChallengeInterview als m4a

The mission of the non-profit One Laptop per Child association is to develop a low-cost laptop, a technology that could revolutionize how we educate the world's children. (August 19, 2007)