Great work!<br><br>FYI here is Sugar Labs' Mission: <br><br>Sugar Lab’s mission is to provide the means to help people gain a quality education and thereby lead more fulfilling lives. Sugar Labs produces, distributes, and supports the use of the Sugar learning platform, a free software system that is freely available to anyone who wants to use or extend it. Our goal is to use Sugar to develop effective and affordable ways to educate children.<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 7:35 AM, Ryan Letada <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rletada@gmail.com">rletada@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<p>Hey guys,</p><p>here is a list of proposed draft mission and
vision statements to get the creative juices flowing. This is just a starting
point. We may eventually have something completely different as we begin to drill into our values and goals. However, these
proposals were inspired by conversations with other members. Keeping in mind
the educational challenges of the Philippines, this is also an attempt to combine different mission statements from other organizations listed below.<span> </span>I can explain my thought process if you guys want. Sige… ingat, I look forward to your
feedback, and please feel free to draft one of your own! <span><br></span></p>
<p><b>Proposed Mission
Statement:</b></p>
<p><b>Draft Option 1</b></p>
<p>Our mission is to enhance educational opportunities through
open source, technological innovations for the empowerment of Filipino youth.</p>
<p><b>Draft Option 2</b></p>
<p>Our mission is to enhance educational opportunities in
technologically underserved and economically disadvantaged communities through
open source, technological innovations for the empowerment of Filipino youth.</p>
<p><b>Draft Option 3</b></p>
<p>Our mission is to enhance educational opportunities through
open source technological innovations for the benefit of Filipino youth.
Drawing from a child’s natural talents and intellectual prowess, we seek to
empower children to become agents of change towards the betterment of
themselves and their communities. <span> </span></p>
<p><b>Draft Option 4 </b></p>
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<p style="border: medium none ; padding: 0in;">Our mission is to enhance
educational opportunities in technologically underserved and economically
disadvantaged communities through open source, technological innovations for
the benefit of Filipino youth. Drawing from a child’s natural talents and
intellectual prowess, we seek to empower children to become agents of change
towards the betterment of themselves and their communities. <span> </span></p>
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<p><b>Proposed Vision</b></p>
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<p style="border: medium none ; padding: 0in;">Our vision is to transform
Filipino youth into 21<sup>st</sup> century learners, who are digitally
literate, critical thinkers, and productive members of society through open
source technology.<span> </span>In doing so, learners
will be better prepared to tackle the challenges of an increasingly competitive
job market and globalised world as well, as become an agent of change towards
the betterment of themselves and their communities.</p>
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<p><b><span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">For your viewing pleasure – here is a
list of mission statements from other organizations. </span></b></p>
<p><b>Open Learning
Exchange Nepal</b></p>
<p><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Open Learning Exchange (OLE) Nepal</span></b> is a Nepali
non-governmental organization dedicated to assisting the Government of Nepal in
meeting its Education for All goals by developing freely accessible,
open-source Information and Communication Technology (ICT)-based educational
teaching-learning materials.</p>
<p><b>Waveplace</b></p>
<p>Our mission is much more than free laptops. Though laptops
get all the attention, they're really just a vehicle for something much cooler.
As Alan Kay said, "you can donate pianos, but they work much better with
piano lessons." We recognize this, which is why most of our emphasis is on
course materials and teacher training. Our larger goal is encouraging kids and
adults to use the laptops to their full potential, which can have profound
educational benefits.</p>
<p><b>One Laptop Per Child
(Main)</b></p>
<p><span>To create educational opportunities for the
world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost,
low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for
collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning. When children have access to
this type of tool they get engaged in their own education. They learn, share,
create, and collaborate. They become connected to each other, to the world and
to a brighter future.</span></p>
<p><span>The mission of One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is
to empower the children of developing countries to learn by providing one
connected laptop to every school-age child.</span></p>
<p><b><span>One Laptop
Per Child Australia</span></b></p>
<p><span>One Laptop per Child (OLPC) Australia's
mission is to improve the lives of children living in rural and remote
Australia - the great majority of which are in indigenous communities - by
providing them with the purpose-built educational tool, the XO laptop. When children
have access to this type of tool they become engaged in their own education;
they learn, share, create, and collaborate. They become connected to each
other, to the world and to a brighter future</span></p>
<p><b><span>World Wide
Workshop Foundation</span></b></p>
<p><span>The World Wide Workshop is a global
foundation for developing open-source applications of social media technology
and game production, to enhance learning, innovation, entrepreneurship, and an
understanding of the world in economically-disadvantaged and
technologically-underserved communities.<b></b></span></p>
<p><b> </b></p>
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