[Olpc-open] FW: olpc and anti-corruption

Curtis Griesel cwgriesel at gmail.com
Fri Apr 4 11:08:13 EDT 2008


Why would somebody participating in a corrupt transaction voluntary subject
themselves to authentication on an OLPC?

On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Clark Pope <cepope13 at hotmail.com> wrote:

>  I'm curious if anyone is looking at using the OLPC as an anti-corruption
> tool. I hear that one of the major problems in afghanistan is corruption of
> the police and other officials not to mention civilians. I realized that
> these developing countries are a lot like Ebay: nobody knows who they can
> trust. The online sites have tried to tackle with ratings systems of users
> and buyers. My theory is the same thing could be accomplished with the OLPC.
>
>
> Basically, people would get an OLPC by providing picture and finger print
> at a vending machine. The units ethernet address would become the person's
> ID. The unit won't work with any other finger scan and if activity is not
> detected in 48 hours, let's say, the unit would be reported stolen or some
> GO would be prompted to investigate.
>
> In the marketplace and at government office both parties to a transaction
> would authenticate themselves to each other via their OLPCs. After the
> transaction each individual can rate the other.
>
> If a seller or official is corrupt it will become obvious very quickly as
> many people report on them. If people refuse to participate then others know
> not to do business with them.
>
> The same infrastructure can be used to report insurgents, essential
> services, voting, etc.
>
> Anyway, is anyone working on applications like this? Seems to me the
> coalition would pay for it since it is alot cheaper to empower millions of
> citizen watchers than it is to send more troops.
>
> Please respond to my email directly as I don't subscribe to this list.
>
> Thanks,
> Clark
>
>
>  ------------------------------
> From: cepope13 at hotmail.com
> To: cepope at nc.rr.com
> Subject: olpc anti-corruption
> Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 13:58:47 -0500
>
> dispense from vending machines
> government employee have paper trail
> ethernet address is the citizen id
> use for elections
> rate vendors and buyers
> use to validate government officials and report corruption
> pay contributors with monthly electronic deposits
> report status of water, sewer, and electricity
> call for help
>
> if stolen can be deactivated remotely
> fingerprint scan to purchase and use
>
> communications tool
> education tool
>
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