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UBUNTU
Scientific Capacity-Building&Technology Transferin the 21st Century VESALIUS COLLEGE 2008
WHATScientific Capacity-BuildingTechnology Transfer
WHYGlobal InequalitiesFuture Global Happiness
HOWAIMSOLPCUBUNTU
Scientific Capacity-BuildingSimply transferring knowledge and instrumentation is not enough to help developing countries build their own research base.
Parachute ScienceBrain-DrainSustainable Development
Scientific Capacity-BuildingSustainable Development
MaterialsPeopleCollaboration
Technology TransferSimply transferring knowledge and instrumentation is not enough to help developing countries build their own research base.
CommerceCrimeOpen-Source
Technology TransferOpen Source
MaterialsPeopleCollaboration
Global InequalitiesWorld Wealth Proportions 2002
Global InequalitiesThe Health Research 10/90 Gap
The 10/90 Gap refers to the fact that only 510% of all global health research funding is directed to research on health problems that affect 90% of the world's population
Global InequalitiesScientific Papers Published in 2001
Scientific Capacity-Building
Founded in 2003, Cape Town South Africa High-Quality Campus Postgraduate Diploma in MathematicsUCT, Stellenbosch and UWCCambridge, Oxford and Paris-Sud-XI
"This institute will bring Africa to the cutting edge of science." Professor Stephen Hawking Cambridge, UK.
2005Yellow: receivedOrange: enrolledGreen: graduated
Course Topics: Bio-informatics Structural and Molecular BiologyEcology and Conservation Science Demographics and Disease Modeling Computation Information and Communication Astronomy and AstrophysicsFundamental Physics Pure Mathematics Environmental and geophysical fluid mechanics [email protected]
Technology TransferIt's an education project, not a laptop project.
Child ownership
Low ages
Saturation
Connection
Free and open source
Technology Transfer1967: Logo, the first programming language written especially for children 2005: OLPC presented at Davos2007: XO-1 starts mass production.Give One Get One
Participating Countries 2007Rwanda Haiti MexicoPeruUSAUruguayAfghanistanCambodiaMongolia
Technology TransferXO-1 Wireless Router High-Resolution Display Electric/ Solar/ Human power
laptop.orglaptopgiving.org
Technology TransferWe are people because of other people"Linux-Based Operating SystemOpen Source SoftwareFree, Supported, Community-Oriented
First release in 2004Updated every 6 Months1 CD + Online Downloads
The practice of ubuntu is fundamentally inclusive, involving respect and concern for one's family and one's neighbors. It also implies respect for one's ancestors, in a deeper spiritual sense. Ubuntu defines the individual as a component of a greater (inclusive) collective whole, and it stresses social consciousness and unity.
VESALIUS COLLEGE 2008