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It will also be necessary to translate both knowledge content and the human-readable parts of educational and GIS software into the local languages. Ed Cherlin, the founder of Earth Treasury, knows how to coordinate that (see the section on translation in the OLPC website -- he created it), and has been active in the network that is translating Linux distributions into local languages globally. | It will also be necessary to translate both knowledge content and the human-readable parts of educational and GIS software into the local languages. Ed Cherlin, the founder of Earth Treasury, knows how to coordinate that (see the section on translation in the OLPC website -- he created it), and has been active in the network that is translating Linux distributions into local languages globally. | ||
David Alan Foster and I are particularly interested in organizing information and knowledge about sustainability, and in | David Alan Foster and I are particularly interested in organizing information and knowledge about sustainability, and in sustainable design. We co-founded Design Earth <www.designearth.net> after participating in the 5th International Symposium on Digital Earth <www.isde5.org>, and we are officers in Earth Treasury. David, an industrial designer and previously publisher and top editor of Invent magazine, had earlier founded Designfluence <www.designfluence.org>, with a (big, hairy, audacious!) goal of supporting 1 billion people in becoming competent and confident designers. A key project of Designfluence is GiveBank, which exists to match communities and NGOs who need industrial design support, with professional and student industrial designers willing to give pro bono services. | ||
The goal in the general outline above is to create a system that supports people everywhere in creating (or translating and localizing existing) curricula for both formal and informal (open schooling) education that is far more effective than the current system and is also inexpensive enough that all children can participate in it. Within that, we have a goal of empowering children to access and create knowledge that enables them to contribute effectively to the well-being of their communities. We also have been researching other resources that do not come with an XO laptop, but connect it to the outside world, charge its batteries, and whatever else is needed. | The goal in the general outline above is to create a system that supports people everywhere in creating (or translating and localizing existing) curricula for both formal and informal (open schooling) education that is far more effective than the current system and is also inexpensive enough that all children can participate in it. Within that, we have a goal of empowering children to access and create knowledge that enables them to contribute effectively to the well-being of their communities. We also have been researching other resources that do not come with an XO laptop, but connect it to the outside world, charge its batteries, and whatever else is needed. |