One Laptop Per Child News

Last August, I crowded a few friends into a Japanese restaurant in Silicon Valley to talk about technology in the developing world. Back then, the discussion swirled around One Laptop Per Child, as it was the most visible manifestation of our collective drive to spread appropriate information and communication technology beyond the world's elite.

I am hoping to reconvene a similar thoughtful discussion next week in San Francisco, but this time, OLPC will be but one option for us to talk about. Now not a day goes by without another announcement of a new laptop in the OLPC space.

Just check out the weird Van Der Led "Jisus laptop" to see how intense the competition is for what I am calling "4P Computing".

4P Computing

What is "4P Computing"? Its a simple acronym I just made up to describe these computing devices that are now responding to three market requirements of the developing world, and a better term than Intel's "netbook" or the industry's UMPC (ultra-mobile PC) and ULPC (ultra low-cost PC). The term "4P Computing" leaves open the form factor and focuses on what really matters:

Power

In the developing world, grid electricity is rare, and generator power is shockingly expensive. Just listen to Michail Bletsas talk about the Negroponte-financed Cambodian school that inspired OLPC:

The largest operating expense for that school is the diesel fuel for the generator at this point in time. That includes airfare and living expenses for the volunteer teachers that teach there. That includes computers, amortized over 5 years. That includes building and maintaining the school. Getting diesel fuel to power the generator is the biggest ongoing operating expense.

To reach any level of market penetration, computers must be highly energy efficient, mainly to allow them to run off solar or other alternate energy sources, including human power. High energy efficiency also reduces heat waste, negating the need for a fan or other dust openings in the form factor, increasing processor lifespan.

Performance

If you look at any cybercafé in the developing world, you'll see people actively engaged with computers, but only using a few applications. Web browsing, including web-email and video watching, listening to MP3's, creating documents, and doing light calculations. These activities do not require high processing resources. In fact, the more progressive Internet cafés are using thin clients sharing a single processor.

What people do want is easy-to-use hardware and software that does not need constant maintenance. Specifically, software that resists viruses, the bane of any beginner user who doesn't understand the real malice lurking online. Oh and software that is essentially free.

Yet, speed is not a major concern when Internet speeds are measured in Kbs, not Mbs. In addition, many cultures measure time in days or even seasons, so microseconds and even seconds are not fretted over. For all those that bemoan Sugar's speed, the usual response I hear overseas is: "What's your hurry?"

Portability

As Donna and others point out in the comments, this type of computing device must be portable. That means both lightweight and small enough to carry around in a backpack or under a child's arm, and yet rugged enough to survive such portability on a daily basis.

Ruggeness extends from a strong physical design, down to water and dust resistant cases, solid-state memory, and screens that can be read in daylight. Yet weight cannot exceed a few pounds with 2 kilograms the maximum upper limit. At that point both the physical effort to carry the machine and its mass if dropped, make it impractical for developing world environments where dedicated computer rooms or home offices are rare.

There, most activity happens in a communal setting, be it the living room, dining room table, or front porch. Computing will need to bend to this model.

Price

Why did Nicholas Negroponte start with the "$100 laptop" moniker? Because people understand price, they respond to a barrier breaking move, and $100 is a nice number to dream about. While $100 is still a dream for OLPC, even the $400 G1G1 reality has set a new price point.

At $400, the growing middle class in Africa, Asia, and South America can buy their first computer, no matter what Annette Jump at Gartner says. $400 may be a month's salary to many, but computers were a month's salary in the US until not too long ago, and that didn't slow adoption. Add in computing as a way to improve children's education, and as any parent will tell you, price becomes secondary.

But price still matters. At $400 or less the developing world makert will expand rapidly and a whole other market emerges. As G1G1 proved first, at least 81,000 people in America and Canada will buy a laptop, if only to tinker with it. Asus has taken that idea and expanded it with the Eee PC to about 500,000 laptops last year with a 3.1 million goal for 2008.

4P Computing Players

Borrowing liberally from the Laptop Mag low-cost laptop cheat sheet, I've made the following comparison of the current 4P Computing players:

4PC Name	Power	Perform	Portability	Price
Asus Eee PC	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Classmate/2Go PC	No	Yes	No	Yes
Elonex One	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Everex Cloudbook	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
HP Mini-Note PC	No	Yes	No	No
Norhtec Gecko	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
OLPC XO-1	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

No matter if you agree with my new 4PC tag line, I think we can all agree that this ever-expanding list of computing options realizes one of the dreams that both Nicholas Negroponte and I share: showing technology companies that there is both a mission and a market in the developing world.

3P - 4P Computing Update:

This post was originally entitled "3P Computing" as I omitted portability from the metrics, considering it a given. Thanks to the comments below, I've changed the post to reflect this required "P" for greater clarity on this computing classification.

Tags: 3P Computing | 3PC | Classmate | Cloudbook | Eee PC | Elonex | Mini-Note | OLPC | Performance | Power | Price |

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Welcome to the NFL (a phrase I've used before)! This is a situation not at all uncommon in the commercial startup world. The promoter (Nicholas Negroponte) has, by dint of impressive skills of persuasion, assembled a small but driven team that has created something sufficiently like the promised product to push out the door.

The investors, who previously stood back and watched, have realized that they may in fact see some return for their money, so they send in the experts they've used before to bring order to the situation.

The promoter loses his position as CEO ("kicked upstairs" to a lofty-sounding position with no power) and the ranks of management are purged and replenished with people who are generally more motivated by social advancement within the office than by the opportunity to innovate.

The company targets an easily-identifiable market and the product design is re-focused on that market. With luck, it becomes a cash cow, at least until competition catches up. The intelligent thing for the innovators to do at this time is to re-group outside the company and work on enhancements, applications and systems centered around the original product concept.

Obviously, adaptations will have to be made to ensure that these secondary products can be used with the base product as it emerges. They shouldn't try to ride the beast as it grows from a pony to a dinosaur (take it from one who's been there). To do so is to invite being corralled and separated from the possibility of creating something really new.

Steve Jobs with Next and the Donna Dubinsky/Jeff Hawkins team with Treo are successful examples of this step-outside-and-keep-innovating strategy, which they used to get back into the good graces of their original company. To put it another way, when I interview engineers I always ask "how would you have done it if you had been allowed to do it the right way?"

So Mary Lou's Pixel Qi approach is the right way. There is a lot of opportunity in the software and courseware field, too, as well as security (Ivan?).

Now making the sale (of the product or of its concept) is no longer a missionary sale, but can be done on the basis of comparison. The nonprofit structure of OLPC provides some interesting opportunities as well. If it survives, it will have enough of a cash flow to reward its management. Nonprofits can collect money for licenses without tax consequences and can dole out the not-profits as they see fit without the threat of stockholder lawsuits.

The structure is well suited for a cash cow product to serve as catalyst for more innovation. Remember, what remains to be built is not a company but an industry. In the personal computer industry the original innovators (whose names you will never hear outside the historical accounts) often became fixated on building their own cathedrals while the rest of us went around them to build the thriving bazaar (thanks to Eric Raymond for the metaphor). They were soon engulfed and their plans for domination of the industry quickly turned to dust.

Things are turning out better than I had feared. OLPC will become a structure with high inertia, turning out a product to be bought by slow-moving institutions while the founders and others generate a vital leading edge that is constantly growing and changing. The money with which to do the actual educational research can be spun off from OLPC to be applied by externally-assembled ad hoc teams working at high efficiency. Money will be attracted to fund new companies to carry improvements into the market and enable its growth.

A lot of us reading these pages will be the ones to exploit their corner of the opportunity, and in doing so, generate more opportunity. The crucial element is communication - across enterprise and institutional boundaries. Things have never looked so good as they do now for the successful development of low-cost systems to empower people in developing areas.

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I've been very let down by the lack of mashups between OLPC and the LOLcat sillyness. Why, you already have 2/3rds of the letters in the name. It can't possibly be any nerdier than LOL Non-Profit Technology (which to be fair has two early LOLPC photos).

Or LOLCode; which turns the traditional LOLCats "captions" into (shudder) executable code, such as this "Hello World" routine:

HAI
CAN HAS STDIO?
VISIBLE "HAI WORLD!"
KTHXBYE

LolCats even have a wikipedia page and an xkcd comic about them. So I think it can't possibly sink any lower in humor value than the LOLCat phenomenon already has.

If you don't get it, don't worry -- you're probably better off than the rest of us. It's basically silly photos of cats with captions explaining what is going through the cat's head at the time. Cats, evidentially, think in short, poorly-spelled, SMS-like grammar-less tidbits. Who knew?

Regardless; I've yet to see any application of this to the OLPC -- what I'll dub; LOLPCs. So, gentle readers, I present you with the first (evar1!1!eleven) LOLPC collection; and invite you to use any one of the available Lolcat creation tools to make more.

Of course, even when attempting humor, we've got to get our digs in. See -- even the laptop wants a solid implementation plan!

It seems to be of the opinion that it'd fare better freed of any top-down approach and find its way on the free market (I think it's been reading too much NextBillion.net).

Saving the best for last, Britt Selvitelle gives us some "awww" factor; but also reveals the real motive: "This actually leads to better wireless reception;" begging the question -- is it one laptop per child ... or one child per laptop??? "

Either way, XO laptops get lonely when you don't bring them to mesh meetups often enough, so make sure they can have mesh friendz.

Whew! Glad that's out of my system (for now).

Update: It seems I'm not even third with this. I think that both makes me feel better about the world, and more scared by it. KTHXBYE.

Tags: Britt Selvitelle | LOLCat | LOLPC | Lonely Laptop | Mesh Networking | NextBillion | OLPC | SMS Grammar | XO |

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Thanks to the tireless organizing efforts of Aunti Mame of the Mass XO User Group, there will be an OLPC News meetup this Saturday at 5pm in Cambridge, just across the Charles River from Boston, and in the shadow of the OLPC offices.

We'll be congregating at the Kendal Square Cosi around 5pm to talk One Laptop Per Child and its progress, impact, and activities. Maybe if we're lucky, OLPC staffers will come out and join the lively discussion.

I hope to canvas OLPC supporters for their ideas on the XO laptop for my upcoming talk at CUNY: Combating the Digital Divide and Information Limits around the Globe: Free and Open Source Initiatives. Specifically, what the Boston crowd expects the OLPC impact to be five years from now, in 2013.

Will the XO make a lucky 13? And will it do so by empowering education and Open Source, or a wave of change in low-cost technology applications, with education and Open Source an afterthought? Come by on Saturday and mesh over the concept:

OLPC News Boston Meetup Saturday, March 8 at 5pm
Kendal Square Cosi
290 Main St, Cambridge (map)

Tags: Aunti Mame | Boston Meetup | Digital Divide | Kendal Square Cosi | OLPC News | OLPC Offices | XO User Group |

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SlashDot is jealous of me! SlashDot hates OLPC News because I, not they, lead in One Laptop Per Child information and influence. And so CmdrTaco dredged up a stale conspiracy theory from January 2006 and gave it a big twist on my wedding night, just to screw me when I wasn't looking. It was a personal attack!

Crazy talk, eh? A fanciful conspiracy theory with just a touch enough logic to sound legit. But total crap when you give it a good think. Well so are the OLPC News conspiracy theories.

Back January 2006, those jealous of OLPC News' growing influence got the wild idea that there is no way it could just be a loose association of writers and commenters myopically focused on the One Laptop Per Child program. That it was impossible for a simple blog to jump into the forefront of the international debate all by themselves.

There had to be a puppet master!

So they went looking for a good conspiracy theory to soothe their egos, and like all good theories, there seemed to be just enough facts to make their fantasies reality.

Tags: Classmate PC | CmdrTaco | Conspiracy Theories | Intel | NGO Advisory Board | OLPC News | SlashDot | Wayan Vota |

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Since its my wedding weekend, I'm a little busy with the people that matter the most to me to entertain stale conspiracy theories that are as out of date as they are out of touch.

So I'll let someone who matters the most to all of us speak for me:

Wayan doesn't carry a intel blue badge
by MaryLouJepsen

All Intel employees have to carry a blue badge. It's the only way to get into Intel buildings. I know: I used to work there.

I also took money from Intel in 2004: they paid my salary for the entire year. Then, when my division was closed, I joined with Nicholas Negroponte to start OLPC. Calling Wayan an Intel employee is like calling me one.

OLPCnews is a great forum for commentary on the OLPC project, they are sometimes critical of OLPC, and like all of us sometimes get things wrong, but they are mostly amazed by and very supportive of OLPC.

OLPCnews is certainly helping build the OLPC community that has expanded as a result of OLPC's "Give One, Get One" program.

I think Wayan is doing a terrific job.

- Mary Lou Jepsen (former Chief Technology Officer of OLPC)

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Are you in International Development and know what "ICT4D" means? Or are you just a crazy geek, in love with the XO laptop and wondering how it will really work in the developing world?

Either way, if you are in Washington DC, clear your calendar on Tuesday evening for the January Meetup of ICT for International Development, co-hosted by Center for Global Development, which will have a very interesting focus:

Opportunities & Challenges of OLPC What are the opportunities and challenges for its approach and vision? Can the project be faithful to its five core principles of child ownership; low ages; saturation; connection; and free and open source?

The panel discussion will feature four OLPC experts leading us through a lively discussion on everyone's favorite low-cost laptop:

• Jonathan Blocksom (Blog) is an educational software developer and author of the kids 3D modeling program GollyGee Blocks. He has been working on software for the XO since May 2007.
• Mike Lee (Blog | OLPC Photos) is the organizer of the OLPC Learning Club DC. You can find him mobile blogging frequently at HipTop Nation. He is also the sponsorship liaison for four years to the MIT Media Lab for a large non-profit member organization based in D.C.
• Justin Thorp (Blog) is a Web strategist/developer for the government contractor CACI and currently supports the Library of Congress. He has worked on content initiatives with OLPC.
• Wayan Vota (Bio) is Director of Mercy Corps' MicroMentor by day and publisher of the widely-ready OLPC News site by night.

We'll begin at 6:00pm with snacks and conversation and then start the program at 6:30pm. Also, if you have an XO laptop yourself, do bring it. We'll be mesh networking before and after the event.

Opportunities & Challenges of OLPC Center for Global Development 1776 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Third Floor Washington , DC 20036 (map)

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Are you handy with HTML? Know CSS and RSS? And do you name colors using hexadecimal notation? Then I have a Christmas Challenge for you:

Help me create a cohesive OLPC News Community!

Right now I have two semi-separate OLPC News communities, neither pretty:

• Blog: community-wide news, commentary, and opinion that feeds off and into the forum. A year old, but stale in its functionality.
• Forum: an intense community discussion, where the voice is local, lively, and disparate. And its only a week old, but it looks it.

I want to coordinate both platforms into one cohesive look. A place where this random collection of voices can unify into a community of dedicated grassroots XO laptop users and promoters.

Share this dream with me. Help build a global XO user group, one platform at a time, by leaving your suggestions, ideas, and if you're a web designer, your contacts in the comments below. Update: I forgot to mention that I am willing to pay for the help too. Maybe in the form of an XO, eh?

Tags: CSS | MT3.2 | OLPC Community | OLPC News | OLPC News Forum | XO Laptop | XO Users | web designer |

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Seeing all the comments flying back and forth today, I realized that OLPC News needed a better discussion facilitation platform, a place for freewheeling commentary that is not limited by post or blog.

So now we have the OLPC News Forum.

There you will find several categories of discussion and exploration of One Laptop Per Child:

• G1G1 Introduction: Are you a G1G1 Donor? Shout out why and celebrate your XO delivery.
• XO Laptop Help: Questions about using the XO laptop
• XO Activities: Got a new software application for the OLPC? Let us know here.
• XO User Groups: Wanna start an XO User Group? Post your location & organization here.
• OLPC Press & Blogs: Your opinion on who is talking about One Laptop Per Child.
• OLPC Publicity: Ideas and actions to promote the One Laptop Per Child program

Now go forth and discuss the One Laptop Per Child program to your multi-thread content. If you have suggestions to improve the forum, including Categories you want to add and/or moderate, do let me know.

Tags: $100 Laptop | G1G1 Donor | OLPC | OLPC News Forum | OLPC Support | XO Delivery | XO Laptop User Group |

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Are you stalking UPS drivers with geek-lust for your G1G1 laptop? Do you want to mesh network with other First Day Donors? Then be sure to join us for the first ever:

OLPC LC-DC Holiday Meetup December 18, 7 PM Mayorga Cafe & Lounge 3301 14th. St. NW (map)

We will have three special guests with us from other OLPC organizing groups:

• Bryan Berry, External Relations Manager, OLE Nepal
• Christoph Derndorfer and Aaron Kaplan from OLPC Austria

Bryan, Christoph, and Aaron will be giving us an overview of their progress in organizing local OLPC groups in their countries, and ideas on how to expand OLPC LC/DC.

Tags: $100 Laptop | G1G1 | OLE Nepal | OLPC | OLPC Austria | OLPC Learning Club | OLPC News | XO User Group |

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Do you remember Adé G. Oyegbola's quote about his patent infringement lawsuit against One Laptop Per Child:

"[Ade's friend] said, 'Wow, I saw your keyboard on OLPC,' " said Oyegbola, who then visited the foundation's website. There he saw a document describing a keyboard layout that seemed nearly identical to his own. "They didn't try to hide anything," Oyegbola said. "They just copied everything verbatim."

Well look what Santa sent me early-like: copies of Oyegbola Nigerian patent documentation on LANCOR's Registered Industrial Design of the KONYIN Multilingual Keyboard.

Page 1 - Page 2 - Page 3 - Page 4 - Page 5 - Page 6 - Page 7

Now we can see everything verbatim ourselves, and it's an interesting read. From the looks of it, Adé G. Oyegbola's suit should be frivolous after all. I say the registration expired a year ago and Oyegbola should cease and desist asap before he embarrasses himself more.

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While I love the idea of empowering education with technology, and the XO laptop is clock-stopping hot, I worry that the lack of local user groups - champions of OLPC and innovators of OLPC uses - could diminish the impact of Nicholas Negroponte's dream.

I call on us, the OLPC community of geeks, parents, believers, to pick up the Constructionist ideas where OLPC has left off - at the local implementation level. Personally, I find the idea of co-learning with others through the XO very compelling and want to make sure that learning together is central to effective educational uses for XO technology.

Here in Washington DC, I'd like to announce the OLPC Learning Club, a local group of XO laptop enthusiasts committed to co-learning, hacking, and expanding the One laptop Per Child computational experience.

Tags: Co-Learning | Computational Experience | Learning Club | OLPC Community | OLPC LCDC | XO Hacking |

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Whew, what a geek-fest at last night's OLPC News Meetup in Washington DC! With three OLPC XO's, a Asus Eee PC, a Sony eBook reader, an iPhone, and a whole smattering of laptops and even a Freeplay Weza, it was computing central at Washington DC's RFD.

And out of that experience, we have Martin Paraskevov's narrative of what happens when you give One Laptop Per Bulgarian Geeks:

First we tried the Sugar interface and the different applications available. We spent some time playing with the python interactive interpreter in Pippy at which point Mohammad found how to get to a linux prompt.

One would press CTRL-ALT-F1 except that there is no F1 but one should press the button where F1 sits. CTRL-ALT-F3 takes you back to X (again there is no F3). On the prompt the root login didn't require a password. The OLPC was running a ssh daemon and we tried to connect it to a Dell laptop running Ubuntu but for some reason we couldn't. Both, the OLPC and the laptop were seeing the same access point (identified as the Mesh network) but we wouldn't be able to connect to it or even ping it.

Thanks for organizing this. Even though it was a bit disappointing that we couldn't connect the OLPCs in the mesh it was a fun evening.

Sadly, not everyone is having a good time with One Laptop Per Child this week. High-powered and highly committed geeks who want to G1G1 from Europe to Australia are having major issues with the Give many customer interface. Just listen to Wayne Connolly's story of woe:

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I believe that if you pick up some of the most pressing world problems, like poverty, corruption, tyranny, most solutions will need some of the same basic needs: easy and free access to communication, information, collaboration and education. Give power to anyone to record present facts, remember their history and broadcast their own voice.

Technology is one tool that can help do that. That’s why I have always been a believer in the power of giving access to computing power and to the internet to the more vast array of people possible, and that’s the main reason I support the One Laptop Per Child program. Now that OLPC has made the Give Many program easier to participate in, I have an idea that Wayan Vota and I want to share with you.

We are proud to start a fundraising to achieve the modest goal of equip one of the local initiatives we’ve been reporting for over two years. We present to you:

OLPC News 100 Laptop Fundraising Drive Let's raise $20,000 in donations for one hundred XO-1 laptops to be sent to the best locally-organized OLPC learning club! Donors

1. Pledge at least $100 on the OLPC News Fundraising Drive site
2. If/when we reach $20,000, vote for the best program to get laptops
3. If we don't reach $20,000, then everyone's pledge is nullified and we just watch others Give Many.

Local Programs

1. Organize a local OLPC learning club in your community
2. Send us a post on how you'd use 60 laptops to enhance education
3. If you win, pass out laptops with a smile

Now don't think we'll be passing out laptops to just anyone. Each local initiative will be debated on OLPC News based on what are the concrete realities and how well established is the curriculum implementation, power grid and internet access on each pilot.

After the vote by the donors, the winning group will get our 60 directed laptops, and we will ask OLPC to direct their 40 laptops to the second place group.

Tags: 100 Laptop | Alexandre Van de Sande | OLPC | OLPC Fundraising Drive | OLPC News | Wayan Vota | XO Donations |

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Now that you've changed your plans and are joining us for the OLPC News Meetup tonight at RFD in Chinatown (map)I have a surprise for you.

It looks like we will have at least four hot little laptops to get our geek on with:

• Two OLPC BTest-4 XO's
• One OLPC BTest-1 XO
• One Asus Eee PC

I am only sad that Intel is not representing with a Classmate PC. Maybe they're too busy sending them to Nigeria.

Tags: Asus Eee | BTest Laptop | DC XO User Group | G1G1 | OLPC News | OLPC News Meetup | OLPC XO-1 | RFD DC |

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If you are a geek in Washington DC, its time to change your Wednesday night plans because Jonathan Blocksom and I are organizing a:

OLPC News Washington DC Meetup
at RFD in Chinatown (map)
Wednesday, November 14, 2007 @ 6pm

That's right, we're replicating the San Francisco Meetup success on this coast, complete with BTest-1 and BTest-4 OLPC XO's to mesh network with.

Tags: DC Meetup | Jonathan Blocksom | OLPC BTest-4 | OLPC News | OLPC Usage | One Laptop Per Child | XO-1 Laptop |