hello everyone!<br><br>i'm really glad i'm able to introduce myself to all of you together : )<br>over the years i learnt a lot from many of you, read and talked about your stuff, etc,, thanks!<br><br>Kiko Mayorga, Lima Perú 1979<br>
survivor. born in lima peru, attended a german school here and studied electrical engineering at the PUCP, done music+maths, shown some interactive electronics, been granted to be a temporal mitarbeiter at the ZKM in germany in 2006.... i had to re think a lot... technology and creativity have such different intersections in Peru compared to the "first world"... decided to come back to Perú and dive 2years into the local (not very formal) industrial automation industry, in paralell was doing workshops and exhibitions on software/hardware hacking around local technology subjects, after that,, i'm invited in 2008 to join and co-found what now is the <a href="http://escuelab.org" target="_blank">escuelab.org</a> project....<br>
<br><a href="http://escuelab.org" target="_blank">escuelab.org</a><br>a mix of a school and a lab - no curriculas, no titles. we've set up a 450m2 space in the centre of lima 2.5 years ago with support of PrinceClaus (NL) and Aecid (SP), which acts as a mix of cultural centre, school, lab, researchers hostel, residency, place to visit if you come to Lima and have to do with technology adaption, appropiation, etc... The subjects we most deal with are technology in perú in education, interculturality and citizenship. Keywords for our activities might be: #OLPC, #floss, #communityradio, #quechua, #experimentaltelevision, #aymara, #publictransport, #opendata.... The Activity-stream of escuelab can be found here: <a href="http://www.escuelab.org" target="_blank">www.escuelab.org</a><br>
<br>I'm very excited to meet you all in October!<br>see you soon!<br><br>-- <br>Kiko Mayorga<br>r&d director <a href="http://escuelab.org">escuelab.org</a><br><a href="http://escuelab.org">http://escuelab.org</a><br>
@kikomayorga<br>@escuelab<br><br><br><i>Postdata:<br>a bit on what id like to discuss:<br><b>olpc in perú<br></b>Peru has bought the most Olpc computers in the world (over 500 000).
After Peru, the next and only big purchaser is Uruguay (400 000). But the differences in
geography, culture, infrastructure and management are huge between them. (...) While in uruguay they followed the 5 basic olpc principles (child
ownership (1to1), young kids, saturation, connectivity, free software),
the peruvian strategy didn;t include connectivity. Now almost (?) four
years have passed, and there are lots of things to review from the
experience. At escuelab we have been following and supporting
inniciatives around OLPC, over the last 2.5 yrs. and we have found out
some interesting things.... were also actively developing methodologies
for managing the "lack of connectivity", promoting field experiences, working on to help get the best out of half a million olpc machines...<br></i><br>