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color:black"><b>Life Skills & Marine Ecology<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:"Lucida Grande";
color:black"><b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:"Lucida Grande";
color:black"><b>1.</b></span><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:"Lucida Grande";
color:black"> Name:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:"Lucida Grande";
color:black"><b><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Dennis
A Stevenson<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:"Lucida Grande";
color:black"><b>2.</b></span><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:"Lucida Grande";
color:black"> Email address:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:"Lucida Grande";
color:black"><b><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><a href="mailto:denniss@iafrica.com">denniss@iafrica.com</a><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:"Lucida Grande";
color:black"><b>3.</b></span><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:"Lucida Grande";
color:black"> Organization:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:"Lucida Grande";
color:black"><b><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Cape
Windjammers Education Trust<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:"Lucida Grande";
color:black"><b>Cape Town, South Africa</b></span><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:"Lucida Grande";
color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:"Lucida Grande";
color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:"Lucida Grande";
color:black">I am the president of a registered charity called Cape Windjammers
Education Trust – <a href="http://www.capewindjammers.org">www.capewindjammers.org</a>
.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:"Lucida Grande";
color:black">It is CWET’s mission to use the power of training under sail for
life skill, leadership and career development thereby contributing to
sustainable peace and development in the region. Training under sail is
internationally recognized for being an efficient tool to induce sustainable
behavioral change in youth (Edinburgh University research). It is implemented
widely in many countries around the world with the exception of the African
continent. It is CWET’s aim to make this tool widely available for South
African civil society organizations and the youth they are working with.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:"Lucida Grande";
color:black">Our organization is run entirely by passionate committed
volunteers, and has a very lean budget.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:"Lucida Grande";
color:black">Here is my vision for the OLPC:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:"Lucida Grande";
color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1;
tab-stops:list .25in"><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:
Wingdings;color:black">Ø<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:"Lucida Grande";
color:black">90% of our trainees are still at school and most come from
disadvantaged circumstances, and many are at risk due to their gang and drug
infested environs. They are thus ideal candidates to receive an OLPC.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:"Lucida Grande";
color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1;
tab-stops:list .25in"><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:
Wingdings;color:black">Ø<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:"Lucida Grande";
color:black">We take them on a 5-day, offshore voyage of adventure.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:"Lucida Grande";
color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1;
tab-stops:list .25in"><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:
Wingdings;color:black">Ø<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:"Lucida Grande";
color:black">In addition to teaching them life-skills and seamanship, we have
developed a marine ecology appreciation course (several of our volunteers are
post-grad marine biologists) as well as teaching them math and science
disguised as navigation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:"Lucida Grande";
color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1;
tab-stops:list .25in"><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:
Wingdings;color:black">Ø<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:"Lucida Grande";
color:black">A wet and windy boat is not a good environment for a book or a
bunch of photocopied pages.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Nor
for any conventional computer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The OLPC will be ideal for the distribution of static learning material
that must be taken to sea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The lightness and the one-handed grip suits an environment where one
must always have “one hand on the boat”.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:
"Lucida Grande";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1;
tab-stops:list .25in"><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:
Wingdings;color:black">Ø<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:"Lucida Grande";
color:black">South Africa has 11 official languages and any one course will
have trainees from several of them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Hence the need to develop where possible language independent
material.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>This fits the nature and
philosophy of the OLPC.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:"Lucida Grande";
color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1;
tab-stops:list .25in"><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:
Wingdings;color:black">Ø<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:"Lucida Grande";
color:black">But static material, however necessary, is not what grabs a child
(I have two sons 12 and 14 so I know whereof I speak).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>There is enormous scope for interactive
material in experiencing the world of seamanship, navigation and marine
ecology.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I have not yet explored
all the possibilities but for instance:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level2 lfo1;
tab-stops:list .75in"><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:
"Courier New";color:black">o<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:"Lucida Grande";
color:black">Marine species recognition and logging<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level2 lfo1;
tab-stops:list .75in"><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:
"Courier New";color:black">o<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:"Lucida Grande";
color:black">Animations of ocean currents, tides and winds<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level2 lfo1;
tab-stops:list .75in"><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:
"Courier New";color:black">o<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:"Lucida Grande";
color:black">Illustrate the way the marine species use and are affected by the
ocean currents and winds<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level2 lfo1;
tab-stops:list .75in"><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:
"Courier New";color:black">o<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:"Lucida Grande";
color:black">Animations of ships’ navigation lights, shapes and sounds for
safety at sea (first you see only the lights, secondly you state what type of
vessel(s) it is (e.g. a submarine towing a hovercraft) the the ship is revealed<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level2 lfo1;
tab-stops:list .75in"><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:
"Courier New";color:black">o<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:"Lucida Grande";
color:black">We could simulate a marine radio network using the OLPCs and the
children could practice radio procedure, sending and receiving “mayday”
messages, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level2 lfo1;
tab-stops:list .75in"><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:
"Courier New";color:black">o<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:"Lucida Grande";
color:black">Interactive scalars and vectors, shaping a boats course<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level2 lfo1;
tab-stops:list .75in"><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:
"Courier New";color:black">o<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:"Lucida Grande";
color:black">Etc…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level2 lfo1;
tab-stops:list .75in"><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:
"Courier New";color:black">o<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:"Lucida Grande";
color:black">All of these will make great games (the way kids like to learn)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:
"Lucida Grande";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1;
tab-stops:list .25in"><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:
Wingdings;color:black">Ø<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:"Lucida Grande";
color:black">Logging and Blogging: the youngsters learn that the ship’s log
needs to be written up regularly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>In like fashion we expect them to keep a log of their experiences and
thoughts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Where possible we want
them to put up a Blog on the net.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Here is an example from the girls we sent to take part in the Tall Ships
cultural exchange in Europe last year:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow";
color:black"><a href="http://teamsa-joins-tallshiprace-2007.blogspot.com/2007/08/team-sa-is-back-from-tall-ships-race.html">http://teamsa-joins-tallshiprace-2007.blogspot.com/2007/08/team-sa-is-back-from-tall-ships-race.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow";
color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:
"Lucida Grande";color:black">We also taught them how to use a video camera and
how to film on board a ship and so in addition to written journals they made a
video journal (available on request).<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>How much better if each child had an OLPC with a built
in camera, and could make their own multimedia journal entries as things happen
or thoughts occur to them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Where
we are using more than one vessel the children would be able to exchange
experiences across boats on the mesh network.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:
"Lucida Grande";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;
tab-stops:list .25in"><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:
Wingdings;color:black">Ø<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:"Lucida Grande";
color:black">The multimedia journals will be taken back to their school and
community where they can be projected from the OLPC while the child gives
his/her report back.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:"Lucida Grande";
color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;
tab-stops:list .25in"><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:
Wingdings;color:black">Ø<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:"Lucida Grande";
color:black">After the 5 days at sea plus the preparation and debriefing days
the OLPC will have become an extension of the child and they will go on to use
them to explore and discover more and more knowledge.<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:"Lucida Grande";
color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;
tab-stops:list .25in"><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:
Wingdings;color:black">Ø<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:"Lucida Grande";
color:black">Having been on a sailing adventure and arriving home with a laptop
will give the child a lot of credibility among their peers and community.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>This will allow them to exercise their
newfound self-confidence and leadership skills.<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>And to break out of the “you’ve got to be in a gang to be somebody”
trap.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We expect each child that we
have invested in to be a multiplier and to influence many others.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-size:
13.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:"Lucida Grande";
color:black">8. Description of your experience, both with hardware and
software:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:"Lucida Grande";
color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;
tab-stops:list .5in"><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:
Wingdings;color:black">Ø<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:"Lucida Grande";
color:black">25 years in the Life Insurance Applications development team of an
international, Fortune 500, financial services company, the biggest in Africa
(see <a href="http://www.oldmutual.com">www.oldmutual.com</a>).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:
"Lucida Grande";color:black">I started in programming, and progressed to
systems analysis, systems design, application systems architecture and
Business/IT strategy and process design.<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>I achieved the positions of Chief Architect (Life Assurance)
and the Principal Consultant for Strategy and Architecture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I was especially valued for my
innovation and human/machine interface design, constantly being at the
forefront of new technology exploitation.<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>I have had the advantage of having been schooled in
the days when memory and random access storage were tiny and code had to be
very tight and sparse, plus having lead design in the days of designing for the
client server environment where the client was a PC and the server was a
mainframe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Early on in my career I
designed the first online, real time updating, system using a database, in the
financial services sector in South Africa.<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>Late in my career I had the pleasure of designing the first
Insurance sales system operating on a salesman cell phone and resulting in an
issued policy on the mainframe legacy systems all within the space of the
client interview.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:
"Lucida Grande";color:black">I designed the web-based sales system for our UK
company.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I published numerous
websites starting in 1995 right up to the present.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";
color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;
tab-stops:list .5in"><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:
Wingdings">Ø<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:"Lucida Grande"">5 years as a consultant at the
head of my own company (see <a href="http://www.ITStratCon.com">www.ITStratCon.com</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:"Lucida Grande""> <o:p></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;
tab-stops:list .5in"><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:
Wingdings">Ø<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:"Lucida Grande"">And now, though I still have the
company, I don’t accept contracts anymore because I am involved full time with
being<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:"Lucida Grande""> <o:p></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo3;
tab-stops:list 1.0in"><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:
"Courier New"">o<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:"Lucida Grande"">A
stay-at-home Dad for my two early teen boys.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo3;
tab-stops:list 1.0in"><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:
"Courier New"">o<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-family:"Lucida Grande"">President
of Cape Windjammers Education Trust<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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