Dear colleagues, probably most of you are aware of the efforts of
Prof. Nicholas Negroponte (founder of the Media Lab at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology) to give a chance to children in
low-development countries. The Negroponte ideals are base on bridging
the digital divide.
After many years of effort his group has managed to create a Laptop at
a cost of under $150, through a non-profit organization called OLPC
(One Laptop per Child). More information can be found on
http://www.laptop.org The OLPC Laptop is a remarkable device,
waterproof, built to last 5 years in difficult conditions, with a WiFi
and mesh network connection, and with a manual system for power
supply.
One problem of this great project is to use this opportunity to
provide useful and inspiring educational content to children in these
poorest areas. Content can be available pre-loaded on the laptops when
they arrive — and for their school servers, which will have more space
and will serve as digital libraries for the schools.
As a professional inside the museum sector, Iam sure that we can
cooperate with this relevant project.
Talking with those who care for content within the OLPC project, they
asked for museums and associations to sign up to curate 100 core
cultural areas and topics, with 100 ideas or works in each of these
topics where that group has the most expertise.
It would be useful for organizations to put together focused
collections, aimed at children [and with minimal use of language],
presenting the cultural heritage of every region of the world. It is
also be interesting to know what topics museum curators from different
countries think would be most interesting to children.
I told OLPC that I am available to make more colleagues aware about
this chance to cooperate, and that my blog
http://www.mariobucolo.com/mb (in cooperation with new OLPC blog
http://planet.laptop.org) can act as a platform to work on this idea.
First of all, we need to better define guideline, for content delivery
and fruition, in cooperation with OLPC. My proposal is to create a
workgroup with colleagues to better define those guidelines (format,
weight in term of memory of contents, copyright management etc).
Next step will be to better understand who can, and want, provide
content for OLPC on the basis of these guidelines.Please, if you are
interested in participating in this Guidelines Workgroup, contact me
on my private email [log in to unmask] and please contact me also
if you can cooperate with specific content.
Many thanks for cooperation and attention
Mario Bucolo
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Mario Bucolo (experience designer)
Mario Bucolo Experience Design Workshop
Via Milano 61 - 95127 Catania - Italy
www.museumland.net
www.mariobucolo.com
Skype: mariobucolo
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