Lucas, a young Uruguayan 11 years, living with his parents Richard and Marisol, Uruguay, in the department of Canelones , is one of the 400,000 children whose schooling is conducted in the context of the " Plan Ceibal ", the program OLPC developed in recent years in Uruguay.

This is what we learn and discover the evidence of this family in the article "CEIBAL Más Allá del aula "published on his blog by Fernando da Rosa Morena - a Uruguayan teacher working in the field of Information Technology and Communication and contributing concretely to experience the "Plan Ceibal", especially through information campaigns, training and technical assistance - and in the recorded interview in this video (see license below) :

Richard, a native of Montevideo, decided to settle in a rural area, where he works, from his small family farm in the town of Piedras Afilar of various activities of breeding, organic farming, manufacturing and marketing of bread, in a context of self-sufficiency. In the fall, he participated in the gathering mushrooms in the nearby mountain to sell modestly from a stand located along the " Ruta Interbalnearia ", to passing motorists.

Lucas, 11, filmed here playing the game on his XO letters Falabracman , attends school nearby, a few kilometers apart. Lucas received, as his friends from school and school children in the country, an XO computer (affectionately known as "Ceibalita"). It is used in schools, where students
have an Internet connection, set up under the "Plan Ceibal" and refers to the house.

Subsequently, the parents of Lucas were able to use Internet connectivity to the school. This allowed them to develop their family farm, looking for opportunities to sell commercial mushroom production. Access to new markets in the capital Montevideo and in Zaragoza, Spain, with initial support from the authorities of the capital of the department of Canelones, justified the creation of a cooperative and participation in the village tasks of collection, preparation, packaging, transportation, marketing. Richard noted that the improvement of working conditions as part of this activity benefits many people in the village, who used to work in precarious conditions.

For Richard, this is literally revolutionary part of a logic of democratization, as the analysis in his testimony, since it allows her family and her village to develop a craft activity so far in previously unimagined proportions. It reports figures of 15 to 20 times higher (about 5 tons per year) compared to previous years. This was made possible by access to other distribution channels, access to new sources of information allowed him to identify and exploit.

For Lucas, who is with the computer teacher, the opportunity to share his knowledge with his parents, it gives him a new place in his family and helps to give greater confidence.

The school has become, with the establishment of a program of access to new educational technologies, the catalyst of economic development. A side effect of the educational promise of the OLPC project, illustrated in a rural area of ​​the South, visionary and pioneer, for which digital inclusion and education goes hand in hand with social and economic inclusion.
License:

CEIBAL aula del más Allá by Fernando da Rosa Morena IS licensed Under a Creative Commons-No comercial reconocimiento-Compartir the bajo licencia misma 3.0 Unported License .
Based on a work at www.fedaro.info .

Reference:

• IC4D 2009: Information and Communications for Development 2009: Extending Reach and Increasing Impact , The World Bank, Washington, 2009

• Transaction details of subtitling implemented (with the assistance, in particular, Marielle Lopez, Camille Robert, Ahmed Mansour / OLPC Morocco, Bastien Guerry, Sebastien Agnot / Dailymotion), on the OLPC wiki France: Subtitling

Nicholas Negroponte at the Brussels conference TEDx

Back in November 2009, OLPC Europe Invited OLPC expects to France to the Brussel TEDx event, Where Nicholas Negroponte talked about OLPC ( see the video ). Not only this event was great, drank We Also Had the Opportunity to Meet and interview HIM Nicholas Negroponte. As we are Volunteers, we specifically Focused on grassroots and Their future, and we all hope OLPC Volunteers Around the World Will enjoy thesis answers.

Bastien Guerry: The first G1G1 in 2007 WAS key in building a large community of Volunteers in the US OLPC. Since That Time, this community HAS grown bigger and bigger, with Many grassroots Communities around the world. How Is OLPC working with ITS Volunteers?

Nicholas Negroponte: Volunteers Fall Into Three categories: software development, deployment and body pro bono professional assistance.

Open Source is Key to OLPC. While the XO laptop dual boots Windows and Linux, A Few Hundred only (if that) out of 1.3 million in the field use Windows. The rest enjoy the support of Volunteers, At Its Peak in excess of 3000 em. Remote places like Afghanistan Have very robust body of Volunteers.

DURING the summer Deployment of 2009 included about 100 Volunteers Who's XO Distributed in 19 Countries in Africa and Two in South America. Theys Averaged 10 weeks, meeting with the African body for a week of training, as a group, in Kigali, Rwanda. The idea WAS to a more grassroots spirit approach to olpc (lowercase) and uniquely Distinctly Than The top-down methods Previously used.

Pro bono professionals - notably: legal, communications and advertising creative - have Provided services to OLPC Since inception. What is Common Among Them IS NOT the free, cost saving nature, the Fact That purpose in EACH case the group is best in class, far better than you Can Normally buy with money. Check out Larry Weber on Google and You Will See Why OLPC WAS on "60 Minutes. "

BG: From my experience, OLPC fans are Attracted first by the XO and Technological aspects of the project. They Want to play with the hardware and software Develop. Goal Is An OLPC education project. What can we do to encourage grassroots Communities to reach more teachers and to work with 'em is making the XO the best device for New Learning Opportunities?

NN: Two methods:

One Happens Naturally with young teachers Who find the technology and enjoy the captivating connectivity THEY Would not Have Otherwise. This is particularly true in remote and rural places, Where Might Not Otherwise young teachers want to be.

The Other Is A Trojan Horse approach, Where the XO IS Simply Offered As An eBook. The teachers not Need Adopt advanced digital means clustering or Become multimedia experts. Need not change the curriculum (Immediately). Instead, the kids come out at night, so to speak, and use the laptop as a laptop.

BG: Being Able to Get Small Quantity of XO Through the Contributor Program is Key in Spreading the word about OLPC and Its Educational Model. Do you plan to extend Such a program and to make more "Small Quantity" of XO available?

Small Quantities are hard, for logistics, support and proof of Principles, the Latter Being the MOST important. Getting machines to developers Is Another Matter. That Should and Will Be INcreased.

Simply handling the demand, shipping small lots and dealing with the support of Many small rollouts is more typical of normal market forces and how a small enterprise Might grow. Purpose The Big Issue IS proof of principles. Is Its name OLPC - one laptop per child - and includes as a Fundamental Principles: saturation. Like an immunization program, you cannot just inoculate a FEW kids. You Have to Give the vaccine to everybody. Reason for this, it really Makes No Sense to do 30 or Even 100 laptops. Worse, When You Have So Few, people tend not to let the children take them home and, Even Worse, They get used in a lab, children 5-15 sharing one laptop.

In Some Of Those boxes, thereafter people Evaluate the program and say it Does not work. Of course, computer labs do not work, IT Other than teaching. We Know That. It Is Like vaccinating ten kids to see if vaccinations work. Think of OLPC as inoculating again ignorance.

BG: You Recently Announced That OLPC Will Be Split Into the OLPC Foundation (dealing with new concepts for the XO) and the association olpc (handling production and deployments). Any impact on the work of the Volunteers?

NN: Both Will Have Volunteers. Those Interested in learning and rollout Will work with the Association. Those Interested in advocacy, engineering and the sites Handful of Humanitarian Will work with the Foundation. The number of Volunteers, combined, Should Rise Dramatically.

BG: Any chance for a new G1G1?

NN: Not centrally, maybe a nation or Two Will Do It. If Two years ago made sense When There Were No Netbooks, There Was a backlog of curiosity, and the WAS brand new idea. Last year it failed to Produce laptops, in part due to the economy, Those Other Reasons for purpose as well.

Gen 3.0 May Be Enough different and disruptive to revisit the idea in 2012.

Read the translation French of this article.