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Technologies:
Technologies:


Database of open Teaching and Learning Materials, in all languages; anyone may teach to their web camera in this open wiki. Information technologies here include human minds. Anyone may teach and learn to in real time in a virtual world, like Second Life, using the wiki-like Google calendar, for example.
Database of open Teaching and Learning Materials, in all languages; anyone may teach to their web camera in this open wiki. Information technologies here include human minds. Anyone may teach to and learn, in real time, in a virtual world, like Second Life, using the wiki-like Google calendar, for example.


Video capable hand held computer devices (e.g. OLPC and mobile computer devices - with robust video bandwidth and infrastructure in OLPC countries, and everywhere).
Video capable hand held computer devices (e.g. OLPC and mobile computer devices - with robust video bandwidth and infrastructure in OLPC countries, and everywhere).
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Laptop/Desktop -
Laptop/Desktop -
One Laptop per Child size screen (6x4 inches), capable of virtual worlds like Second Life , and all related technologies as they develop; web pages - markup languages, what people create and do with this, etc.
One Laptop per Child size screen (6x4 inches), capable of virtual worlds like Second Life, and all related technologies as they develop, and streaming video; web pages - markup languages, what people create and do with this, etc.


Mobile -
Mobile -
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Budget robustly for technological innovation and experimentation.
Budget robustly for technological innovation and experimentation.


Become the low cost worldwide provider of internet access, focusing on the OLPC countries first.
Become the low cost worldwide provider of internet access, focusing on the OLPC countries.




Interns:
Interns:


Interns positions in the first two years (20 hrs a week maximum):
Intern positions (task oriented) in the first two years (20 hrs a week maximum):




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Quarter 2
Quarter 2


Build community of Universitians - like Wikipedians - long into the future, through active outreach, who contribute richly idea-wise to WUaS (e.g. students, worldwide, at great universities - Cal, Stanford, MIT, Ivy Leagues, Cambridge, Sorbonne, etc. as one group of such Universitians?; Quakers as another group?; Bohemians as another?; Peace community as another?)
Build community of Universitians - like Wikipedians - long into the future, through active outreach, who contribute richly idea-wise to WUaS (e.g. students, worldwide, at great universities - e.g. Cal, Stanford, MIT, Ivy Leagues, Cambridge, Sorbonne, etc. as one group of such Universitians?; Quakers as another group?; Bohemians as another?; Peace community as another?)


Get One Laptop per Child languages working with at least 4 subjects & 1 intern for all 9 languages, at first; plan to hire a Ph.D. per language to generate a university and school in each language
Get One Laptop per Child languages working with at least 4 subjects & 1 intern for all 9 languages, at first; plan to hire a Ph.D. per language to generate a university and school in each language.