User:Mokurai/Jobs

OLPC proposes to give every child on Earth the means to be educated and ready to take a job upon graduation. But many countries are not creating jobs. Earth Treasury proposes to create a business curriculum for schools, and help them to link up and go into business together.

Ideas, please.

Partners

• Novica sells art and craft items from Africa and Asia on eBay and its own site. Novica partners with National Geographic.
• Overstock.com was founded as an anti-poverty program. It became the largest employer in Afghanistan after the war.
• eBay is a sponsor of OLPC. It owns Shopping.com and PayPal (which operates in 190 countries).
• The microfinance community, from Grameen Bank, where the movement began, to Kiva, where anybody can make a loan to a poor person.
• ??

Product categories

• Coffee, tea, cacao, kola
• Art
• Clothing
• Music
• Crafts
• ICT (hardware, software, ISPs, Web design, system administration, etc.)
• Water purification
• Health
• Transportation
• Food storage systems
• Video
• your idea here

Curriculum Topics

• Math--Algebra, Geometry, Probability, Statistics, Calculus, Logic
• Programming for business services
• Economics
• Finance
• Accounting
• Business law
• Trade law
• Market research
• Team building
• E-Commerce
• What else?