Transcript one_to_one di Eleonora Pant&#242

A computer
donato…
si guarda in
bocca
OLPC e gli
altri…
ITIS Majorana – 7 marzo 2008
Eleonora Panto
WHAT IS YOUR
POINT OF VIEW?
THERE IS NO
RIGHT
POINT OF VIEW
OLPC vs EEEPC 701
Design
OLPC
User Interface
EEEPC
Learning Curve
EEEPC
Applications
Connectivity
EEEPC
Specs and Performance
OLPC
EEEPC
They are intended for two different
markets.. (1)
So, why are we comparing them?
High temperature resistance?
Batteries with no toxic materials?
Special crash tests?
They are ultraportable and cheap!
Although they say:
“It's an education project,
not a laptop project.”
They speak about
ONE LAPTOP PER CHILD
www.laptop.org
A Marketing Meme
Negroponte sketches out his idea for
a
$100 laptop for the poor children of the
world in an e-mail to his old friend, Hector Ruiz,
CEO of AMD. (2)
“an amazing marketing meme to express
his dream's affordability” … “everyone else was
thinking about teenagers and adults using low
cost computers.”(3)
…but about the price…
• One Laptop Per Nigerian child would be
73% of the entire governmental income
and One Laptop Per Argentinean child
would be half of the non-salary education
budget. Countries like Rwanda or Nepal
have no hope to afford even $100 per
child out of their own national budgets.
(2006 figures)
…and about the (real) costs….
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Laptop cost
Training
Software maintenance
Hardware maintenance
Internet connection – satellite
• Estimated about 978$ - 5years
(2006 figures)
…so they needed a (different)
business model…
• [..] In the vaccine business in the third
world one of the biggest problems is
reselling subsidized vaccines to 2nd or
first world countries.
• […]Or monetize the cult status the
machine now already has in western
countries?
(2006 - Bram Ellens, a Business Developer at
eBay)
…the (2007) business model..
• G1 G1 Program
Why not G1- G100/1000?
• Non-profits means that profits may not be
distributed to investors, so a non-profit
doesn't have shareholders
….and about the design…
• It just isn’t designed for you.
Get over it. (4)
… designed for children….
Unusually, Rufus does not have an
opinion about that controversy, but he
does have a verdict on the laptop. "It's
great," he says. (Rufus is 9 years UK boy) (5)
…exactly what idea of children?..
• All children who get an XO WILL
NEED TRAINING!!!!! There is nothing
OLPC can do about it; there is
nothing the children or their parents
can do about it. – (Sali Fandjalan, testing
the XO with children in Guinea). (6)
…an idea of school…
• The XO computer is a true marvel--a
wonderful machine designed to be
extremely collaborative. And it is designed
to be collaborative because the underlying
educational assumption is that the kids will
learn on their own without help from
teachers, coaches or parents.
… not a global idea of school …
• The disaster at olpc has many lessons. One of
the most important is that, despite good
intentions, technology, design and
innovation by themselves cannot
solve problems if they ignore local
culture and history. The XO laptop for the
world's poorest children is being rejected by
India, China and Nigeria as yet another form of
foreign Western colonialism. And it is. (7)
OLPC – Now Rethinking
• "The OLPC is like the Peace Corps. You
go in for a couple of years, and it's really
hard, but really rewarding."
• "I am not a CEO," says Negroponte.
"Management, administration, and details
are my weaknesses. I'm much better at
the vision, big-picture side of the
house.“(8)
…visions can change the world..
"Nicholas has ignited a
completely new
situation, so the world
should be grateful to
him.“
•
(Muhammad Yunus - micro-lending pioneer Grameen Bank)
References
• (1) http://www.laptopmag.com/review/laptops/OLPC-XO-vs-AsusEee-PC-701.aspx
• (2)http://www.laptop.org
• (3)
http://www.olpcnews.com/sales_talk/intel/negroponte_100_laptop_a
sus.html
• (4) http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=258
• (5)http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk
/1/hi/technology/7140443.stm
• (6)http://www.laptopmag.com/news/interviews/olpc-xo-goes-toafrica-part-ii.aspx
• (7)
http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/NussbaumOnDesign/archiv
es/2008/01/one_laptop_per.html#more
• (8)
• http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2008/tc20080
35_429837.htm
• Whatever you think think the opposite. – Paul Arden