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Everything comes from earth...

computers are made of silver, copper, lead, aluminum...

transportation

factory

transportation

store sales

...then computers are typically deployed in the developed

world...

...and then they are used in productive ways, often by

scientist in search of new ideas and technologies...

...after 3 or 4 years, through the process of “creative

destruction”, a computer becomes obsolete...

...so we go and buy a new computer...

Social network

So millions of laptops are sitting idle or becoming eWaste. What can we do?

...or even worse, older laptops end up being trashed and millions of polluting

semiconductor chips become global eWaste...

Digital divide

Knowledge digital divide

eWaste

...our older laptop is still working and is thousands of times more powerful than the computer we used to bring a man to the moon in 1969, yet we let it sit in our drawer, idle...

We can use a social network to mobilize idle resources, bring awareness and make informed decisions.

… using the social network tools, every owner of a laptop takes upon a mini mission: to bring a laptop to a child

TAG!

... we start by tagging each available laptop in the planet so that we can build a global

inventory and track the progress of our mini mission...

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school NGO

school

school

school

school

... we can then use the global inventory to track sources of supply (the laptops) and sources of demand (schools)...

demand supply

*All the drawings in this drawing were either obtained from open source libraries or created by the Labdoo Team

S0 S1

... once a laptop is no longer

needed, it's marked as S1, initiating the

process to bring it to a child...

Dashboard Tools

... using the dashboard tools, now it's time to sanitize the laptop and install in it the education packages...

S2

Leveraging the work done by global volunteer programmers writing open source education software

S3

... time lags supply / demand: the laptop now is put in the inventory waiting for demand...

S4

... demand kicks in: the laptop is assigned to a school via a NGO

responsible for the deployment...

Earth call for laptops

Social network

Register traveling schedule (dootrip)

People traveling with excess capacity in their luggage

Assign laptop to dootripper

S5

BIG TASK

Drops of goodwill with zero opportunity cost

Examples of grassroots strategies to mobilize laptop resources:

F

Tag and forward (TAF)

Make and tag (MAT) F

T F T

T T

T

T

T T

T T

Buy and tag (BAT)

Social network

Dootripper community Call for laptop pick-up:

Sms, tweet, email

dootrip

S6

Dooplet: automatically signals when a laptop needs recycling

Dootrips

Tag and forward!

Labdoo.org

Current tagging zones:

Barcelona, Belgium, California, China, Guatemala, Honduras,

Kenya, Madrid,

Massachusetts, Nigeria, Taiwan

The Circle of Life:

... finally, we bring the laptop to a recycling factory where its components are properly recycled and brought back to planet

earth, and a new cycle starts...

dootrip

signal!

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