Brown - Digital Divide - Eric, Max, Charlie

Max, Eric, Charlie

The Problem

• Digital Divide - The separation of those who have access to sophisticated information technology and those who don’t

• Children all over the world confined to home country without access to world’s knowledge

• They may never have a chance to benefit our world

The Problem• Illiteracy rates rising drastically• Economy of countries with high illiteracy rates

declining due to lack of jobs• Global economy falls as a result

Digital Divide Statistics

• Less than 3 out of every 100 Africans use the Internet• 8 times as many Internet users in the US than on the

entire African continent. • 30 countries with an Internet penetration of less

than 1%.

Fixing The Problems

• One Laptop Per Child: non-profit organization dedicated to providing free laptops to students in need

• Children are empowered to solve own problems

An Introduction to OLPC: Video

The 200-dollar laptop

XO Review: Video

Our Organization

• The Division Coalition• Make a difference in Ghana• Education one of the most valuable resources

Our Purpose + Aim

• Empowerment > Charity• Give a man a fish, feed him for a day• Teach a man to fish, feed him for life

Our Project: Ghana

• OLPC recently sent 10,000 laptops to Ghana

• Our goal is to reinforce that number

• The Republic of Ghana has 12,630 primary schools, 5,450 junior secondary schools, 503 senior secondary schools

Goal

• Children can be properly educated• Futures possibly outside of their native

countries • Become members of the world's online

community.

Action Plan

• Plan currently in motion • Established connections with SAS Puxi • No changes to our plan so far.

Short-Term Plan

• Raise (at least) 1200 RMB• Purchase (at least) one XO laptop• Provide to child in Ghana

Long-Term Plan:

• Continue raising money and sending laptops to the people who need them

Other organizations that can help:

• One Laptop per Child (OLPC)• INTEL – Classmate PC• AMD – 50x15

Interactive Activity:• Three Groups• Two groups get a

laptop• One group with

dictionary• 3 minutes to give

definition and usage of word

• No talking outside of groups

Word 1

Valetudinarian

Word 2

Escutcheon

Word 3

Mellifluous

Word 4

Lapidicolous

Word 5

Gendarme

Discussion• Group 1: Did you feel satisfied about having the

answers so quickly?• Group 2: Why was it that you never got the

answers?• Group 3: Was it frustrating to have all the

answers but always be after Group 1?

• Group 2, look on the side of your laptop at the wireless switch.

Moral

• Education much easier with access to information technology

• XO’s will not work without interconnectivity

Conclusion

• Technology leads to futures of many possibilities

• Children in developing countries educations can equal those in first-world countries

• It is up to us

Sources• http://50x15.amd.com/en-us/default.aspx?si=1• http://50x15.amd.com/en-us/about.aspx• http://www.amd.com/us-en/• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_laptop_per_child• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_divide• http://laptop.org/en/vision/index.shtml• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghana • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classmate_PC• http://www.itu.int/wsis/tunis/newsroom/stats/

Sources, Cont.

• Pictures:Slide 4: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/b/bd/20080910182710!Global_Digital_Divide1.png Slide 6: http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/games/olpc.gifSlide 8: http://www.imagecows.com/uploads/_128b-olpc_xo_laptop.jpgSlide 12: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Flag_of_Ghana.svg/450px-Flag_of_Ghana.svg.png Slide 17: www.amd.com