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==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.
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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* Create an R&D consortium to further all of these goals and whatever else turns out to be necessary. We know that issues of economics, governance, social attitudes, and sustainability are important. What do we need to know, and how can we come to know it? What can we learn from the children themselves, and from teachers, parents, and others?
* Tap into Barack Obama's plans to increase global development aid by $25 billion annually, including a $2 billion Global Education Fund; into the UN Millennium Development Goals program; Make Poverty History; and all of the other initiatives that share our vision, even if they don't know it yet.
* Save as many languages and cultures as possible from extinction by teaching the children how to record them.
* Link children, schools, and communities together around the world in a safe manner for collaborative development.
* Teach children how to create sustainable international businesses together using their new knowledge and skills.
==AKA ==
==AKA ==
==Contact==
==Contact==
* [mailto:echerlin@gmail.com My e-mail]
* [mailto:echerlin@gmail.com My e-mail]
* [http://flickr.com/photos/toepfer/2254179681/ At SCALE x6] Sixth SoCal Linux Expo
* [http://flickr.com/photos/toepfer/2254179681/ At SCALE x6] Sixth SoCal Linux Expo
==Contributions==
==Contributions==
I started to work on [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Publications OLPC documentation], but then I discovered that even more pressing needs were being ignored. So now I have appointed myself Shadow Chairman & CEO, and taken on the additional responsibilities described at [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Earth_Treasury Earth Treasury], on problems that OLPC considers out of its scope. I'm also helping at [http://www.SugarLabs.org/ Sugar Labs] to create a research consortium to address some of these issues.
I started to work on [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Publications OLPC documentation], but then I discovered that even more pressing needs were being ignored. So now I have appointed myself Shadow Chairman & CEO of OLPC. Don't tell Nicholas.
==Generalist==
==Generalist==