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=Driving Forces=
*[[Political & Social Forces]]
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== Political & Social ==
[[Image:Test_100Laptop.gif|frame|right]] The "$100 laptop" is a more popular name for a project set up by One Laptop per Child (OLPC) association. The $100 laptop was a result of research initiative by MIT Media Lab in January 2005 in its effort to create a technology that will revolutionise child education in the world.
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<strong>The Rise of Awareness in Educational Importance (Xin Wang)</strong>
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With the trend of accelerating globalization, the governments of developing countries would realize the importance of catching up the pace of global development, both economic and technology. And how can they achieve this goal? The most important factor which would contribute to one country’s development significantly should be the improvement of education and training of skilled professionals. Although fund insufficiency and lack of training specialties could be the main obstacle to this trend, the local government could still pay more and more efforts to the educational issues, and try their best to finance for them.
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<strong>Charity would play an important role for our project.(Xin Wang)</strong>
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With the development of global industry, the civilians in most countries would become richer and richer, especially in developed countries. In this way, according to the Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, they are no longer just be satisfied with their physiological or safe-purpose needs, but to realize their individual value, the self-actualization, including creativity, lack of prejudice, acceptance of facts, and morality [1]. Therefore, there would be more and more individuals who would like to contribute their own efforts and wealth to charity. At that time, since the educational infrastructure in developed countries would be already sophisticated and almost perfect, the charities’ educational efforts would focus more on developing countries. Therefore, the rise of charity’s power and individuals’ self-achievement awareness would drive the $100 laptop per child project significantly.
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<strong>THE AWARENESS OF IMPORTANCE IN YOUNG EDUCATION (Jason)</strong>
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As the human evaluated, every generation becomes more focused on the children’s education. The traditional education is no longer enough to satisfy these young generations. When the technology is leading the world and the globalization, the distance between the world becomes smaller and smaller. The multi-languages become more and more important. The communication via network becomes more popular. The $100 laptop is a powerful tool to satisfy these young group generations, because of the useful information exchange and world-wide-web.
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One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is a non-profit organisation that was established to achieve its goal. It is independent of MIT and is strongly sending the message to the world that this is not a laptop project but an education project.


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Children in rural areas--especialy in developing countries--have very little, if not deprived of, access to school. The conventional solution to this issue is to build a school and train teachers. But it is perhaps the slowest way. OLPC is a breakthrough that will give the rights to education to these children.
<strong>THE SWITCHING OF SCHOOL EDUCATION TO FAMILY EDUCATION (Jason)</strong>
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Is the school education enough and useful for the rest of your life? This becomes the issues of every single family. Because of the trend of globalization and life time learning, the family education becomes more important. The $100 laptop is a good tool of interactions between children and parents. The multi-media are playing an important role. It closes the distance between the parents and children and the parents can use this laptop to find the children’s personal interest and their characteristics out.  
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At the end of November 2006, the $100 laptop was proudly presented to the public. Despite the price and the intended users, the machine boasts a remarkable complete sets of software that helps broaden the mind and creativity of a child. This was made possible by the strong support of open-source community in building this system so that the price can be kept low.


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Our research is to study the future of this education project in 2017 considering various driving forces from technological to socio-political aspects. The motivation behind this research choice is the noble and excellent idea of this project as well as the technology applications in it.
<strong>Education (Nyeko Sonny)</strong>
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As families and governments empower individuals and the public to completely eradicate poverty, diseases and illiteracy, masses are able to go to school. The computers and laptops are now cheaper and at the same time learners can even study from home in their native languages. Those with visual disabilities are also catered for by way of optical devices. Children may not be able to see their teachers face-to-face with technologies that will facilitate and knowledge sharing.
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<strong>The information Explosion (Nyeko Sonny)</strong>
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The explosion of information is being helped by the use of computers. This has led to the search of information through different ways as a result of the ever evolving telecommunications technologies, which has impacted greatly on the way of life of the society. The movement to a purely global information economy has also led to the urban migration hence ‘killing’ villages as people search for new ideas and knowledge. However, with information explosion, it’s less important for people to move as ideas are now mobile.
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== Science & Technology: ==
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Computer technology would be quite sophisticated in next 10 years, especially in micro processor field. With the help of nanotechnology and methodology for designing of massive integrated circuit, and since the fully competition in computer components market, the cost of producing mini laptops could be relatively low. And this would be another driven force for $100 laptop per child.
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Click here for our [[Our Research Questions|Complete list of our research questions]]
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<strong>THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW GENERATION POWER ELECTRONICS CIRCUIT(Jason)</strong>
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The new generations of the power electronics circuit has the trend of replacing the traditional power transformer and circuit. The reason is because of the new power electronics circuit has higher efficiency, switching ability and the most important is the smaller size and lighter weight therefore most of the energies switched into the power output instead of heat energy. It also means the size of the internal radiator is much smaller. It means this technology can be highly integrated into a small laptop and solves the heat and weight problem.
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Smaller is not smallest. The nanotechnology has the advantage of making the components smaller, durable and tougher. It means that this nanotechnology has a possibility of making a water proof, dust proof, antiseptic, moisture proof and shock proof laptop for the children in order to longer the life time of the every single laptop.
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The battery and traditional power charger is no longer the only one option to operate the laptop. In case of the improved solar power technology, it can charge the laptop power at any moment as long as there is a light available. This ability can help most of the condition when the sockets are not enough or no longer available (especially when the class is not in the classroom).
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<strong>Technological Advancement (Nyeko Sonny)</strong>
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The technological advancement in telecommunications is of tremendous improvement and can as well act as a catalyst to laptop use generally. The usage of Wi Fi and Bluetooth technologies can be used to facilitate consumers in their pursuit of work-based or recreational Internet usage. The Wi Fi technology can transfer data at a faster speeds and range, whereas the Bluetooth requires less energy power.
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* [http://scenariothinking.org/wiki/index.php/Our_Research_Questions#Laptop Laptop Questions]
<strong>Infrastructural Improvement (Nyeko Sonny)</strong>
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The need to universal access to technology especially computers to bridge the digital divide called for improvement in infrastructure by most governments especially now in developing economies. Improvement in roads and electric power generation now tops agendas in almost all countries and surprisingly affordable to citizens.
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* [http://scenariothinking.org/wiki/index.php/Our_Research_Questions Economic Questions]


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== Economic: ==
* [http://scenariothinking.org/wiki/index.php/Our_Research_Questions Demographic Questions]
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Since the price of labor force in developed countries would be relatively high, more and more international companies would like to move their manufacture modules to developing countries, where the labor price is relatively low. However, there would be another problem, which is the cultivation of supply chain. Generally, the supply chain is not as matured as they are in developed countries. And no matter in supply chain companies or in manufacturing departments themselves, skilled professionals are highly needed. So, in the long run, and even for the sake of the international companies themselves, to invest on the local education could be able to get support of multinational companies.
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<strong>THE RECYCLING OF MATERIALS AND REPRODUCING TO NEW MATERIALS (Jason)</strong>
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Because of the high speed of the consumer electronics elimination, the recycle materials will become a major force of producing the new raw materials. It will force the components’ price lower and friendly environment. It means the price of the laptop can be lower because of the cheaper recycle materials.
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== Population and Demographic ==
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<strong>THE DECREASING OF BIRTHRATE AND UNBALANCE OF PHYSICAL LABOR (Jason)</strong>
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* [[Why do children in developing nations need laptops?]]
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The price of bring up children are becoming more expensive because of the importance of the education. The demand of the children decreased therefore in the coming 20 years, the labor forces will become unbalanced. One third of the population in Europe will retire. It means the quality of the young education and technology will become more important. The $100 laptop can be a solution to improve the quality of learning for the young generations.
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* [[What is the alternative for education?]]


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=Related Links=
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3m7f0WgWNM Our Video Presentation]
*[http://www.laptop.org One Laptop per Child]
*[http://www.media.mit.edu MIT Media Laboratory]
*[http://wiki.laptop.org OLPC Wikipedia]
*[http://www.dcontinuum.com/content/show.php?id=4 The Making of $100 Laptop]
*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6675833.stm '$100 laptop' sparks war of words]
*[http://etech.eweek.com/content/desktops_and_notebooks/meet_the_xo.html Meet the XO]
*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6723741.stm Intel steps up cheap laptop race]
*[http://etech.eweek.com/content/desktops_and_notebooks/meet_the_xo.html Intel not being a good classmate]
*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6189222.stm $100 laptop set for launch]
*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6246989.stm $100 laptop could sell to public]
*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6908946.stm '$100 laptop' production begins]
*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6897950.stm Intel and $100 laptop join forces]
*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6932897.stm Low-cost PC aims at rural China]
*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7082701.stm '$100 laptop' begins production]
*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7171201.stm One laptop project dealt big blow (Intel pulls out on project)]


[1] Wikipedia, Maslow's hierarchy of needs, website: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs]
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Introduction

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The "$100 laptop" is a more popular name for a project set up by One Laptop per Child (OLPC) association. The $100 laptop was a result of research initiative by MIT Media Lab in January 2005 in its effort to create a technology that will revolutionise child education in the world.

One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is a non-profit organisation that was established to achieve its goal. It is independent of MIT and is strongly sending the message to the world that this is not a laptop project but an education project.

Children in rural areas--especialy in developing countries--have very little, if not deprived of, access to school. The conventional solution to this issue is to build a school and train teachers. But it is perhaps the slowest way. OLPC is a breakthrough that will give the rights to education to these children.

At the end of November 2006, the $100 laptop was proudly presented to the public. Despite the price and the intended users, the machine boasts a remarkable complete sets of software that helps broaden the mind and creativity of a child. This was made possible by the strong support of open-source community in building this system so that the price can be kept low.

Our research is to study the future of this education project in 2017 considering various driving forces from technological to socio-political aspects. The motivation behind this research choice is the noble and excellent idea of this project as well as the technology applications in it.

Aki Baihaki, Sonny Nyeko, Jason Tsai, Wang Xin

Research Questions

Click here for our Complete list of our research questions

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Driving Forces

Diagrams

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Frequently Asked Questions

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