UBUNTU Scientific Capacity-Building & Technology Transfer in the 21 st Century VESALIUS COLLEGE 2008

 WHAT Scientific Capacity-Building Technology Transfer  WHY Global Inequalities Future Global Happiness  HOW AIMSOLPCUBUNTU

Scientific Capacity-Building “ Simply transferring knowledge and instrumentation is not enough to help developing countries build their own research base.”  Parachute Science  Brain-Drain  Sustainable Development

Scientific Capacity-Building  Sustainable Development MaterialsPeopleCollaboration

Technology Transfer “ Simply transferring knowledge and instrumentation is not enough to help developing countries build their own research base.”  Commerce  Crime  Open-Source

Technology Transfer  Open Source MaterialsPeopleCollaboration

Global Inequalities World Wealth Proportions 2002

Global Inequalities  The Health Research 10/90 Gap “The 10/90 Gap refers to the fact that only 5–10% of all global health research funding is directed to research on health problems that affect 90% of the world's population…”

Global Inequalities Scientific Papers Published in 2001

Scientific Capacity-Building Founded in 2003, Cape Town – South Africa High-Quality Campus Postgraduate Diploma in Mathematics UCT, Stellenbosch and UWC Cambridge, Oxford and Paris-Sud-XI "This institute will bring Africa to the cutting edge of science." Professor Stephen Hawking Cambridge, UK.

2005 Yellow: received Orange: enrolled Green: graduated

Course Topics: Bio-informatics Structural and Molecular Biology Ecology and Conservation Science Demographics and Disease Modeling Computation Information and Communication Astronomy and Astrophysics Fundamental Physics Pure Mathematics Environmental and geophysical fluid mechanics aims.ac.za

Technology Transfer “ It's an education project, not a laptop project.” Child ownership Low ages Saturation Connection Free and open source

Technology Transfer 1967: Logo, the first programming language written especially for children 2005: OLPC presented at Davos 2007: XO-1 starts mass production. Give One Get One Participating Countries 2007 Rwanda Haiti Mexico Peru USA Uruguay Afghanistan Cambodia Mongolia

XO-1 Wireless Router High-Resolution Display Electric/ Solar/ Human power laptop.org laptopgiving.org

Technology Transfer “We are people because of other people" Linux-Based Operating System Open Source Software Free, Supported, Community-Oriented

First release in 2004 Updated every 6 Months 1 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