[OLPC India] India Digest, Vol 26, Issue 4

[usha.gowri]

RajeshCould you help me with a similar application?
We have about 42 children clubs spread out in the mountains and commuting
eats up 70% of our monies.
Thanks in advance
Rgds
Gowri

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> Rajesh

Could you help me if I need to

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> Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 12:44:19 +0530
> From: "Rajesh Kankaria" <rkcoral at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [OLPC India] Some questions
> To: "Rakesh Biswas" <rakesh7biswas at gmail.com>
> Cc: Satish Jha <jha.satish at gmail.com>, OLPC India List
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> Rakesh
>
> One of the NGO with whom I am closely associated, we got a mobile based
> application developed to collect data and transmitted over SMS and collate
> on the internet.
>
> I am sure XO could be utilized for various health project. We have been
> planning for a pilot project using EEPC (I have few in my organization) and
> its built-in webcam for distanced-healthcare, specially for the unit we are
> setting up at Sunderbans.
>
> Rajesh
>
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Rakesh Biswas <rakesh7biswas at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> >
> > Health care is another area that can gain from students using XO and
> > helping their parents to create electronic health records that can be
> > updated regularly so as to maintain continuity of care.
> >
> > This can also be regulated through SMS inputs into a mobile web based
> > platform.
> >
> > As detailed before we have been inspired by the OLPC India to make a
> small
> > beginning by trying to utilize rural school children to interview their
> > parents and help create their parent's basic health record ( to start
> with
> > in the form of a story of their parent's lives) as a part of their co
> > curricular activity.
> >
> > Hope to get more inputs on this thread.
> >
> > rakesh
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 1/5/09, Ankur Verma <ankur at laptop.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> A step in this direction was to extend communication between XO and cell
> >> phones;supporting text messaging (Ubiquitous in rural areas since here
> >> people commonly use SMS/voice calls rather than accessing mobile
> internet).
> >>
> >> SMS with XO can be used for disseminating information; which can be
> either
> >> about latest commodity prices taken from school server, sent to parent's
> >> cell phone, or any other notification. Students can even send their
> queries
> >> to teachers and to other concerned communities.
> >>
> >> I gave a demonstration on using SMS with XO at OLPC, Cambridge; the
> brief
> >> overview of which can be found here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/SMS
> >> Initial step has been encouraging and It will be exciting to see
> >> real-world results.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Ankur
> >>
> >> On 1/5/09, S. ZAHEER <szaheer at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hello Satish,
> >>>
> >>> The points raised by your friend are all valid.  These laptops should
> not
> >>> just be used as educational tool by students but can also contribute in
> >>> economic progress of their parents.  For e.g. it is a well known fact
> that
> >>> middle-men in our country buy the produce from farmers at minimal
> prices and
> >>> sell at market rates. XO can be used for disseminating correct & latest
> >>> prices of commodities etc to the parents of the kids using XO laptops
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> For this to happen, relevant and latest content in regional languages
> has
> >>> to be made available.  XO can have strategic tie-ups with such content
> >>> providers as I dont think OLPC will be able to aggregate such a diverse
> >>> information on its own.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On a lighter side, who knows an XO child may help his parents find a
> >>> suitable groom through a matrimonial site for his elder sister not just
> from
> >>> a nearby village but from a distant state or a country :-)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> With regards,
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> S. Zaheer
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> 3 ideas to start the new year in a different way (an innovative new
> year
> >>> greeting from my brother)
> >>>
> >>>
> http://www.hasnainzaheer.com/2008/12/2009-is-this-the-year-of-opportunities-and-turnarounds-happy-new-year/
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>  On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Satish Jha <jha.satish at gmail.com
> >wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>             One of my friends from Harvard Alumni Group had the
> >>>> following to say:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm familiar with this great initiative. The question I would have is
> >>>> this: do you have studies on how the village changes when children get
> the
> >>>> XO? In a poor village can the child be "only" a school learner, or
> does s/he
> >>>> have other roles to play? How does the XO impact those roles?
> >>>> Coming off reviewing a major book on bio-tech, I'm impressed with the
> >>>> fact that we don't see things enough as flow, as context, as ecology.
> The XO
> >>>> must have major impact, but is it to pull the child out of the
> village,
> >>>> mentally, and into the Mumbai-global economy world? Or does it lead to
> >>>> solving community problems and enhancing everyone's potential? The
> child
> >>>> connecting adults to resources, for instance.
> >>>> Questions, I see, not advice, and perhaps you have good answers
> already.
> >>>> Or perhaps this holistic view helps somehow.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
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> From: "Edward Cherlin" <echerlin at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [OLPC India] Some questions
> To: "Satish Jha" <jha.satish at gmail.com>
> Cc: OLPC India List <india at lists.laptop.org>
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> On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 2:54 AM, Satish Jha <jha.satish at gmail.com> wrote:
> > One of my friends from Harvard Alumni Group had the following to say:
> >
> > I'm familiar with this great initiative. The question I would have is
> this:
> > do you have studies on how the village changes when children get the XO?
>
> Some.
>
> > In
> > a poor village can the child be "only" a school learner, or does s/he
> have
> > other roles to play?
>
> The child is an enabler for the rest of the family, for friends,
> indeed for the entire community.
>
> > How does the XO impact those roles?
>
> We have been at this for only a year, and there are only a few studies
> published. You can find them, plus a link to some anecdotal accounts,
> at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Academic_papers. The first change of note
> in the Ethiopia study is that before XOs, children were not allowed to
> ask questions of a teacher, ever. After, teachers of their own
> volition put question time in their lesson plans.
>
> In Arahuay, Peru, teachers report that children are becoming much more
> sociable, talking to each other more, sharing personal possessions,
> and losing their fear of outsiders. They teach their parents how to
> use the computers, and do agricultural and other research for them
> online.
>
> We can provide many more observations, but no conclusions tested in
> multiple locations. There are education researchers in a number of
> countries conducting and planning studies right now, and we need many
> more of them.
>
> See also the Harvard Business Review study of the economic effects of
> the ITC e-choupal project, where access to one computer per village
> resulted in measurable growth in farm income.
>
> > Coming off reviewing a major book on bio-tech, I'm impressed with the
> fact
> > that we don't see things enough as flow, as context, as ecology.
>
> At some point we will write Free digital textbooks on ecology and many
> other subjects for K-12 education systems worldwide. See
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Creating_textbooks for an outline and a
> list of proposed partners in this new consortium. Most of them have
> agreed in principle to join in the effort.
>
> > The XO must
> > have major impact, but is it to pull the child out of the village,
> mentally,
> > and into the Mumbai-global economy world? Or does it lead to solving
> > community problems and enhancing everyone's potential?
>
> We propose to create a new economy. We don't know how it will work out
> in detail, but we definitely intend to pursue the possibilities for
> working over the Net from the villages. We propose, for example, that
> the next wave of outsourcing in India will be from the cities to the
> towns, and from the towns to the villages, as both education and
> videoconferencing capabilities spread everywhere.
>
> > The child connecting
> > adults to resources, for instance.
> > Questions, I see, not advice, and perhaps you have good answers already.
> Or
> > perhaps this holistic view helps somehow.
>
> Earth Treasury proposes such a view of the project, and has taken up a
> number of challenges that OLPC and Sugar Labs consider out of scope.
> These include
>
> o Renewable electricity generation and storage for schools.
>
> o Broadband Internet, even in the poorest and most remote villages.
>
> o International microfinance, including e-commerce and IT services.
>
> o A complete rethinking of Free digital textbooks, using the full
> power of XO hardware and Sugar software.
>
> o Connecting schools all over the world.
>
> o Teaching children to use the video camera in the XOs to record and
> share languages, cultures, oral histories, and whatever else is of
> value to them and their communities.
>
> o A curriculum on the basics of business, genuine economics (not the
> current Free Trade nonsense), and so-called Intellectual Property law,
> so that communities can maintain the rights to their own culture.
>
> On this last point, I will cite only the attempt to patent a medicinal
> use of turmeric, where the courts held that documentation of this use
> in the Vedas did not constitute Prior Art. Examples can easily be
> multiplied.
>
> There are also initiatives in health education and health care systems
> using ICT, and other possibilities for attacking every aspect of
> poverty, neglect, and oppression. Simply giving every individual a
> voice in the conversation about our shared future will be extremely
> powerful.
>
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