It seems that where the G8 and our collective governments fail, our trusted corporations succeed. “Who’s running the world?” I find myself asking myself? I doubt it’s the politicians, but al least our corporation seem to have matured and developed a strong sense of social responsibility.
In the ongoing movement to help the developing nations develop, Intel and One Laptop per Child (OLPC) recently announced they have agreed to work together to bring the benefits of technology to the developing world through synergy of their respective programs. Under the agreement, Intel and OLPC will explore collaborations involving technology and educational content. Intel will also join the board of OLPC.
You may already know that OLPC is a non profit organization whose purpose is to bring learning opportunities to the most remote and poorest children of the world by providing connected, low cost and rugged laptops to each and every child in their daily lives.
Empowering is the name of the game. This is not about developing dependency but rather proving the tools and nurturing the skills to help all. One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is a non profit organization created to design, manufacture, and distribute laptops that are sufficiently inexpensive to provide every child in the world access to knowledge and modern forms of education. The laptops will be sold to governments and issued to children by schools on a basis of one laptop per child. These machines will be rugged, Linux based, and so energy efficient that hand cranking alone will generate sufficient power for operation. Mesh networking will give many machines Internet access from one connection.
As a charity, they need all the help they can musters and Intel joins the OLPC board as a world leader in technology, helping reach the world s children. Collaboration with Intel means that the maximum number of laptops will reach children.
So, what is the significance of this new relationship? Intel, the world leader in silicon innovation, develops technologies, products and initiatives to continually advance how people work and live. The Intel powered classmate PCs was specifically designed by Intel to meet the needs of classrooms in emerging markets.
This is not an isolated exercise on Intel’s part. They currently invest more than $100 million per year in over 50 countries to promote education, including efforts through the Intel Foundation, and has been developing products for the educational marketplace. Intel s focus on education for emerging markets is part of the Intel World Ahead program, the company s comprehensive approach to bring technology to everyone, anywhere in the world.
Do you want to know more about OLPC and their dream team or friend? I hope that this means that you to have been inspired to you your bit for social responsibility. It need not be this sizable or profound.
OLPC is based on constructionist theories of learning pioneered by Seymour Papert and later Alan Kay, as well as the principles expressed in Nicholas Negroponte s Being Digital. The corporate members are AMD, Brightstar, Chi Lin, eBay, Google, Intel, Marvell, News Corporation, Nortel Networks, Quanta Computer, Red Hat and SES Astra.
If you run your own business and have your own network of associates, why not seen how you can support the schools in your neighborhood, youth training program or similar.
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