June 5: Luncheon Series with SJ Klein of the One Laptop per Child Project
Tuesday, June 5, 12:30 pm
Berkman Center Conference Room
23 Everett Street, Second Floor, Cambridge, MA
Guest: SJ Klein
Topic: One Laptop per Child: Education, Development, and Content
Tomorrow, June 5, Director of Content for the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) Project SJ Klein will hold a lunchtime discussion on education, development, and content on the newest models of the OLPC. Following up from last week’s keynote by Nicholas Negroponte and the OLPC workshop at Berkman’s Internet & Society Conference, SJ will talk about the process in which content is gathered and developed for the OLPC. Come discuss issues related to improving access to and the quality of learning materials in developing countries, especially in South America and Africa. Related topics include the educational impacts of technology, licensing, and government standards.
Samuel J. Klein has spent many years developing collaborative communities. He is an advocate for free universal access to knowledge and tools, and a veteran Wikipedian, founding the project’s first newsletter and translator network, and organizing last year’s international Wikimedia conference in Cambridge. Previously he has worked to develop software and supporting communities for machine-assisted human translation, and to set up free education centers. Klein is interested in local and sustainable knowledge development, and structures and principles that help this flourish. He establishes ties with teachers, game developers, and publishers, helping them to understand the need and uses for free and open materials, and to work with the global community around open education.
This event will be webcast live. Webcast viewers can join the discussion through IRC text chat or in the virtual world Second Life. For information about our event webcasts and remote participation, see http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/webcast. If you miss the live chat, catch the podcast audio & video at MediaBerkman, at http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mediaberkman. Lunch is provided to those who RSVP.
OLPC: http://www.laptop.org
Group wiki: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Education_and_development
