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 aims.ac.zainfo@aims.ac.za

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