User:Mokurai/Earth Treasury

Earth Treasury (currently redirects back here) has no corporate connection with OLPC, the maker of the $100 Laptop, or with Sugar Labs. Sugar Labs just lets us use their Wiki.--Mokurai 18:28, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

As of November 2008, Earth Treasury has a mailing list and yahoo group.

Vision

The end of poverty through communication and sustainable commerce

Mission

Fill in gaps in the OLPC mission, including

Electricity for even the poorest and most remote villages
Broadband Internet
Microfinance
Creating textbooks
Free computers running Sugar, two per child, where OLPC XOs are not available (One at school, one at home)
Link schools around the world
Teaching children to do business together.
Teaching the genuine free market, not the nonsense in which corporations get to go freely into any country, but people don't
Demonstrating the XO to anybody who should get involved with OLPC and Sugar Labs
Going viral
Telling everyone how they can participate. We have 101 Things To Do.

Who we are

Edward Mokurai Cherlin, Founder, Earth Treasury
Mark Roest, OneVillage Foundation
David Alan Foster, DesignFluence

Volunteers

What we need, where you can sign up.

What is not in the OLPC mission?

OLPC has decided to focus its attention on the education mission, including Constructionism, and on creating and delivering the laptop hardware and software to support that mission. This includes some parts of rethinking textbooks, and possibly curriculum development. Other issues are out of scope, and are being left to governments and to other organizations to address.

Earth Treasury has decided to tackle all of the remaining issues, either in its own programs, starting with connecting schools and teaching business, or by partnering with others.

Electricity for schools in remote villages
Internet access for schools in remote villages
Communication between schools and with the wider world
A Business curriculum
Mokurai/Village governance
Economic development in general, including microfinance and job creation for students and graduates

There are also issues nominally in scope that OLPC management has neglected. This includes

Teacher training
Organizing Localization projects in a timely manner whenever a country or language group becomes a likely target for deployment
Evaluation of laptop education programs, and comparisons between different laptops and software ("bake-offs")
Publishing research results

Further thoughts on these and other topics will appear in Earth Treasury pages in my namespace on this Wiki.

Wiki

Please put the following category link on any page that is specific to Earth Treasury. [[Category:Earth Treasury]]

Please put Earth Treasury pages in the Mokurai namespace.