A talk from the London Business Forum on ‘Imagination strategy‘: Where do new ideas come from? And, what environment generates them?
NN at the London Business Forum
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Nick Doiron returns from heav^B^B^BUruguay, learns from great philosophers
Nick’s last post from Uruguay waxes poetic about the always-active Ceibal headquarters, recalls his first day in the country, and quotes from some of the great thinkers of our age. Worth a read.  He may have less time for OLPC in the coming 18 months, but olpcmap is only getting better.
OLPC Ghana: finally underway in the rural East
OLPC Ghana’s national program, initiated under the last national regime and supported by the Baah-Wiredu Laptop per Child Foundation, was deployed to one large town (the Millennium Village of Bonsaaso), but then was delayed for a year while the new regime reviewed the program. Â Recently the rollout of XOs to rural parts of Ghana has continued.
Last week XOs reached a new school in the Suhum Kraboa Coaltar district, as reported by GhanaWeb, along with new furniture for the school. It is unclear from the report, but the laptops there seem to be in a new part the school, in a computer lab. This is unlike the project in Bonsaaso, and not the implementation we would recommend, but it is good to see that school connectivity in rural parts of the country is being revisited as a priority.
XOs are heading to Tannu Tuva
Khürgülek Ondar, with help from OLPC-SF, is heading back to Tuva with XOs in hand and some Sugary ideas to share.  Sameer is helping maintain an OLPC Tuva project blog, and they are looking for help in localizing Sugar into Tuvan.
The excellent Kleider clan have been giving him some help… now I hope he finds someone from OLPC MN to meet with him there.
OLPC Will Remain a Non-Profit
A letter to the editor from Rodrigo Arboleda, Chairman of the OLPC Association:
The story in today’s Boston Business Journal about One Laptop per Child requires certain clarification:
1.    OLPC will continue as a non-profit organization in order to carry out its traditional role advocating for 1:1 computing in developing countries as a means to provide a modern education to children.
2.    OLPC will continue as a non-profit organization in its activities to arrange and manage laptop deployments around the world.
3.    OLPC continues to believe that non-profit status enables it to more effectively communicate on the issues of children and education without the possible taint of commercial self-interest.
OLPC is exploring many avenues for the further development of its educational software on new operating systems and computing platforms. Â If such activities are pursued, it may require capital from traditional capital markets such as venture capitalists. Â These funding sources may prefer to invest in a new type of vehicle labeled “Profitable Social Enterprises”, which would be a subsidiary of OLPC, but would have no effect on the traditional mission, methods or objectives of OLPC. This new subsidiary may develop its products for the U.S. market for a fee, but it is expected that the software would be made available in the developing world for free. This is all part of a new breed of philanthropy being developed that does not contradict the OLPC spirit or mission.
Rodrigo Arboleda
Chairman and CEO
One Laptop per Child Association
Vera Sacchetti: critical reflections on social design
Vera Sacchetti shares a design-geek’s reflections on OLPC from Lisbon, where she recently finished writing a thesis on “design crusades”:  Two billion laptops to “revolutionize educationâ€