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==Election Statement==
==Election Statement==
Mokurai's vision for the XO is to End Poverty at a Profit all around. The mission is whatever planning, funding, research, development, and deployment is needed to make that happen, with a focus on Management by Exception in order to keep on top of what is needed in changing circumstances.
Mokurai's vision for the XO is to End Poverty at a Profit all around. The mission is whatever planning, funding, research, development, and deployment is needed to make that happen, with a focus on Management by Exception in order to keep on top of what is needed in changing circumstances and make sure that nothing gets missed that we must have.
Sugar Labs has the Sugar software as its main focus, but needs to work with others on the rest of the mission. We should raise substantial funding to support these substantive projects, up to the point at which they can become self-sustaining, in the manner of the Grameen Group of companies.
Sugar Labs has the Sugar software as its main focus, but needs to work with others on the rest of the mission. We should raise substantial funding to support these substantive projects, up to the point at which they can become self-sustaining, in the manner of the Grameen Group of companies.
These are the principal elements of the mission today. More will appear.
These are the principal elements of the mission today. More will appear.
* Extend the OLPC and Sugar Labs work with evidence-based education research, curriculum development, and the redesign of textbooks. We must take maximum advantage of software on the XO, and of the best research that we can find or carry out on how children learn, and what is of greatest value for them to learn.
* Extend the OLPC and Sugar Labs work with evidence-based education research, curriculum development, and the redesign of textbooks, taking maximum advantage of software on the XO, and of the best research that we can find or carry out on how children learn, and what is of greatest value for them to learn.
* Engineer appropriate solutions for electricity and Internet connections in even the poorest and most remote villages in every target environment, in collaboration with university Schools of Engineering, Engineers Without Borders, and others, in order to maximize the usefulness of XOs to children.
* Engineer appropriate solutions for electricity and Internet connections in even the poorest and most remote villages in every target environment, in collaboration with university Schools of Engineering, Engineers Without Borders, and others, in order to maximize the usefulness of XOs to children everywhere.
* Work with microfinance organizations to place these electricity and Internet solutions along with XOs. The intention is to jump-start local economies by selling modest amounts of surplus power and bandwidth, and thereby raise the money to pay off the original loans and make further investments.
* Work with microfinance organizations to place these electricity and Internet solutions along with XOs. The intention is to jump-start local economies by selling modest amounts of surplus power and bandwidth, and thereby raise the money to pay off the original loans and make further investments.
* Teach children how to create sustainable international businesses together using their new knowledge and skills.
* Teach children how to create sustainable international businesses together using their new knowledge and skills.
Mokurai has extensive experience in every aspect of computers, as a tech writer, global market analyst, and software developer. Previous work includes math software and textbooks, [http://www.openvoting.org/ Free Software for voting], [http://www.unicodeconference.org/iuc31/program-d.htm#ses6_2 Unicode support on the XO], [[http://www.cauce.org/ fighting spam around the world], and [http://unicode.org/iuc/iuc24/a345.html earlier anti-poverty projects]. He can sometimes get people to stop talking past each other and answer the ''real'' questions (though not necessarily Nicholas). See, for example, the IETF discussions on multilingual URIs (link below).
Mokurai has extensive experience in every aspect of computers, as a tech writer, global market analyst, and software developer. Previous work includes math software and textbooks, Computer Science papers, [http://www.openvoting.org/ Free Software for voting], [http://www.unicodeconference.org/iuc31/program-d.htm#ses6_2 Unicode support on the XO], [[http://www.cauce.org/ fighting spam around the world], and [http://unicode.org/iuc/iuc24/a345.html earlier anti-poverty projects]. He can sometimes get people to stop talking past each other and answer the ''real'' questions (though not necessarily with [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Controversies Nicholas] %-[ ). See, for example, the IETF discussions on multilingual URIs (link below).
==AKA ==
==AKA ==