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Labdoo Conference Barcelona 2016 Come share your Labdoo story and learn from it!
Day: September 17th, 2016 Time: 08:30 CEST Entry fee: 15 Euros (lunch included) Reservation: attendees need to register online as there will be limited physical seats by filling in this form https://barcelo.eventsair.com/labdoo-conference-barcelona-2016/labdoo/Site/Register Location: Campus Diagonal Nord. Aula Master Edificio A3 C. Jordi Girona, 1-3 08034 Barcelona (GPS coordinates: 41.388353, 2.112448 | Gmaps ) For those that are not present at the event, the conference will be streamed via YouTube. Please visit www.labdoo.org during the conference event to view the streaming sessions.
International sessions with Schools and Hubs around the world can connect via videoconference through this channel: https://hangouts.google.com/hangouts/_/labdoo.org/labdoochannel1 https://hangouts.google.com/hangouts/_/labdoo.org/labdoochannel2 https://hangouts.google.com/hangouts/_/labdoo.org/labdoochannel3
Labdoo Conference Barcelona 2016
Agenda - Morning 8:30 → 9:00
Pick up of registration badge and conference reception
9:00 → 9:30
Welcoming Remarks: Elena Parpal, Economist by profession, Labdoo Activist by passion. Jordi Ros, Founder of Labdoo.org. Jordi will make a presentation on “How did the Labdoo Story begin...”. Conference hosts: Patricia Caicedo and Montse Vivero.
9:35 → 10:00
Invited Speaker: Ralf Hamm, Head of Labdoo.org in Germany. “Using Open Source Technology to Spread Education Around the World” | Hub: https://www.labdoo.org/hub?h=431
The countries of Germany, Austria and Switzerland have altogether successfully delivered laptops using CO2-neutral means to more than 300 schools around the world. Ralf will explain the path taken to achieve such a great success: from initial ideas, to the development of strategies, the grassroots operations, with the end game of delivering happy faces in many places around the planet. He will focus on describing efficient ways in which you can get your local activities started, through community outreaching, building trust and enabling all your Labdoo activities with the “zero target” funding approach.
10:05 →10:30
Invited Speaker: Jampa Latso, Student and Activist from Tibet. “The Improbable Journey of a Girl from Tibet to Reach Education” | Edoovillage: https://www.labdoo.org/edoovillage?e=27596
Born in a small tranquil village (Tsha Ra), situated in ranged snow mountains in Tibet plateau, I had been a humble student in school, an obedient daughter in the family, and a conservative Tibetan girl. The birth of a child is a miracle and its worth cannot be equated anything else. People, however, in my community prefer somehow boys to girls. Yet it is blessing that I have been able to continue navigating through the maze of the educational paradigm, experiencing diversity up until now.
10:35 → 11:00
Invited Speaker: Frank Geisler, Head of Labdoo.org in Switzerland. “Labdoo in Switzerland, there is more than cheese, chocolate and mountains: How to Start a Movement to Spread Education Around the World.” | H ub : https://www.labdoo.org/hub?h=440 Switzerland started it’s Labdoo activities in 2012. Since then the story of Labdoo has spread across the 4 language regions of Switzerland and has created great local momentum. Frank will explain how he started from scratch and what strategies he applied to steadily increase the number of laptop donations, edoovillages and supporters. He will focus on his social media activities and which technical approach the Swiss group of supporters chose to sanitize as many laptops as possible during such a short time period.
11:05 → 11:30
Invited Speaker: Ousman Umar, Student and Founder of Nasco Foundation. “From my village in Ghana to Barcelona: a Kid’s Journey to Reach Education” | Edoovillage: https://www.labdoo.org/edoovillage?e=620
Ousman Umar left Ghana at the age of 14 on a multi-year journey crossing the deserts of Africa and sailing the Atlantic ocean on a man-made boat to reach Spain in his quest for education. Today he studies at the University of Barcelona and is the President of Nasco Foundation, an organization that partners with Labdoo and many other NGOs to bring laptops loaded with education software to schools in Ghana.
11:35 → 12:00
Invited School Hub Speaker: Alejandro Rodriguez, High School Student and Head of Labdoo Hub Colegio Balder, Madrid, Spain. “‘Se hace camino al andar’: a personal journey from noble ideas to hands-on social activism” | Hub: https://www.labdoo.org/hub?h=413
Alex will give a first-person account of the 18-months journey that took him from asking "what can I do to help other children in developing countries get a better education?" to managing a labdoo school hub with 10 volunteers and 2 edoovillages in Africa. The journey includes steps such as a young social entrepreneurship contest, the initial struggle to get the hub up and running, a proposal before the school board to make the hub sustainable in the long run, the recruiting and training of other volunteers, and the avenues to increase outreach in the local community. He will provide labdooers and aspiring hub managers with clues and ideas on how to survive (and enjoy!) the journey, and will also outline some plans for the hub's future.
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Agenda - Afternoon Track 1 12:00 → 13:00
Track 2
Workshop 1: “Sanitizing a Laptop for Education,” by Labdoo Hubs Germany/Switzerland.
Workshop 2: “Programming @ schools ,” by eXplorium.
This workshop will teach you how you can convert a used laptop into great educational system. We will describe the steps required to sanitize the laptop and demonstrate some of the advanced education tools that it can deliver including packages such as Edubuntu, Offline Wikipedia, RACHEL and the various powerful Open Education Resources (OER) that come with a Labdoo laptop.
It has been almost 50 years since the apparition of educational programming. The growing number of tools makes it hard to be up-to-date. In this hands-on workshop we will discover some of these tools while trying to solve fun and interesting puzzles. Among other technologies we will work with Scratch and eSeeCode, and we will see some educational robots like Bee-Bot, Pro-Bot and Lego (WeDo). No previous experience is required. h ttp://explorium.cat/
13:00 → 14:00
Lunch time
14:00 → 15:00
Continuation of the workshops for track 1 and track 2.
15:05 → 15:30
Invited Speaker: Serena Fortuna and Graciela Andrade (from ChuayDek and Yachana-huasi NGOs) . Managers of Labdoo Hub in Rome. Monse Vivero from NGO Yachana-huasi. Core team member of Labdoo Catalonia. “From Friend to Friend: building a chain of help, food, knowledge, and IT!” | Edoovillage: https://www.labdoo.org/edoovillage?e=986
Education plays a key role for children and people in need to improve their present life have better opportunities for their future. Especially in younger age. However, it is very important that education goes hand in hand with human experience, affection, healthy food and fun. The family Buddha Kasettra School (Thailand) is giving all of this and more to students from hill tribes, who otherwise would not have access to education or even food. We are helping students in many ways and, thanks to Labdoo, we are helping them to have more interactive and visual classes as well as increase their IT education and knowledge, crucial for them to reach out for a better future.
15:35 → 16:00
International connection with Sister Zeph and her School Project in Gujranwala, Pakistan: The Right to Educate our Girls. [Online connection / video] Edoovillage: https://www.labdoo.org/edoovillage?e=25578
“Using digital tools, my girls are learning what we cannot teach them.” I live in a village of Pakistan where most girls are not allowed to get an education. Girls in my country are getting married as young as 12 years old and they have no awareness of their rights, they have no choice to speak, to take a stand for anything which they think is not correct. They are required to follow only, without asking anything. So at the age of 13 I took a stand to change this situation – I started a free school in the courtyard of my home and during the last sixteen years, I have provided education to more than 600 girls.
16:05 → 17:00
Round table discussion in connection with other Labdoo hubs around the world Session introduced by Dr. José Osuna (Presidente Club Unesco/Desarrollo Sostenible y Paz por la ONU Academy) and Dr. Jordi Ros (Labdoo.org Founder). The floor will be open for discussions where everyone will be able to express and share their stories and ideas related with the goal of spreading education and sustainability. This session will also be made in connection with other Labdoo hubs around the world via videoconferencing.
17:05 → 17:30
Concluding Remarks
Labdoo Conference Barcelona 2016
Invited Keynote Speakers Jampa Latso was one of the few women in the world selected to be part of the World Pulse Program. A courageous woman in Tibet fighting for the education of the Tibetan children, Jampa and her team use the Labdoo social network to help bring educational laptops to her school in Tibet. “Born in a small tranquil village (Tsha Ra), situated under the snow-capped mountains in the Tibetan plateau, I was a humble student and a conservative Tibetan girl. The birth of a child is a miracle and its worth cannot be equated with anything else. However, people in my community prefer boys to girls. So it is a blessing that I have been able to gain and continue my education to the Masters level.”
Sister Zeph. [Online connection / video] Sister Zeph and her educational project have been awarded World Pulse’s Lynn Syms Prize, the Bioneers Change Makers Award and the Gold Medal from New York Film Festival, all due to her activism to help spread education. Her school in Pakistan is receiving Labdoo laptops. “I live in a village of Pakistan where most girls are not allowed to get an education. Girls in my country are getting married as young as 12 years old and they have no awareness of their rights, they have no choice to speak, to take a stand for anything which they think is not correct. So at the age of 13 I took a stand to change this situation – I started a free school in the courtyard of my home and during the last sixteen years, I have provided education to more than 600 girls.”
Ralf Hamm is living in the Ruhr area, Germany, and has worked in the IT industry for more than 35 years. He founded software companies in Germany and Switzerland in the field of CAD design for kitchens and staircases. Ralf retired in 2007 and in 2012 he joined Project Labdoo by creating the first Labdoo Hub in Germany in the city of Rhein-Ruhr. He coordinates the Labdoo activities in the German speaking countries and is the 1st chairman of the German charitable association Labdoo.org e.V. Ralf’s Labdoo movement in Germany has delivered laptops to more than 300 schools.
Frank Geisler grew up in Germany and works in the IT industry since 1979. He studied Informatics and Mathematics at the University of Karlsruhe and has vast experience in computer hard- and software including programming and development. After managing successful sales and services partnerships of well known brands such as Commodore, MRO (IBM) and SAP he now acts as CEO of ERPsourcing, a hosting/outsourcing partner and VAR of SAP Switzerland. Frank joined the Labdoo movement early 2012 and coordinates all Swiss Labdoo activities. He lives with his family in the agglomeration of Zurich, Switzerland. Frank’s Labdoo movement in Switzerland has delivered laptops to more than 50 schools.
eXplorium was created as an association to bring science and technology to children of all ages. With a growing demand, it became present in many schools around the Barcelona area as a provider of extracurricular activities and workshops. Behind the scenes, we can find, Marc Guinjoan, Laura Morera and Joan Alemany, three graduates in mathematics, that share not only this common background, but a common goal: to create quality materials for both students and teachers.
Alex Rodriguez, a high school student, is the founder of the Balder School Labdoo hub in Las Rozas de Madrid. The hub has grown to 10 volunteers and supports two edoovillages in Togo. Winner of the 2014 Young Social Entrepreneur Award by the Balder Foundation, Alex has been interested in STEM and educational technologies from an early age, attending advanced math, computer science and robotics classes. He was selected by Johns Hopkins University into its Center for Talented Youth program. Alex was also selected into ESTALMAT, a program sponsored by the Royal Academy of Sciences of Spain aimed to identify children with talent for mathematics.
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Graciela (Chela) Andrade is a national of Ecuador and resident in Italy. Graciela has worked for 34 years in The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Through her working experience in the humanitarian field and her extensive international travelling, she got committed on her personal capacity with many humanitarian projects world-wide. With the support of Labdoo, Chela has contributed to the creation of computer laboratories in Ecuador, Colombia, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italy, Cambodia, Thailand, and Kenya.
Serena Fortuna was born in Rome, Italian by nationality and roots but with additional Latin and Asian drops in spirit and heart. Marked by personal experiences in Thailand, she co-founded ChuayDek ("Help the Kids" in Thai), a non-profit organization moved by the goodwill, energy and resources of Friends and Supporters, to help children in need having a better present and a brighter future. Labdoo is playing a special role in ChuayDek providing educational laptops and words are simply not enough to thank for this! Serena is a an environmental biologist working on climate change mitigation, supporting countries in their efforts to reduce deforestation and forest degradation.
Club Unesco Heritage was born with the aim of transforming education connecting cultures, knowledge and global values. As part of its charter, it developed de Cátedra Unesco Creat-Inn-Pact which works in collaboration with Universities in Latin America and Europe RECLA to implement Objective 4 (“Quality Education”) of the United Nation's Post 2015-2030 Agenda. Presented by Dr. José Osuna (Presidente Club Unesco/Desarrollo Sostenible y Paz/ONU Academy), Blanca Ros (General Manager Club Unesco Desarrollo Sostenible) y Carmen García (Escuela de Valores Cátedra Unesco).
Montse Vivero is the founder of Yachana-huasi (Y-h), a non-profit association created to give support to low-income families with a focus on children. Through Y-h, Montse met Jordi and Labdoo.org, starting thereafter multiple school projects to bring educational laptops to Ecuador. Montse was key to the creation of four Labdoo hubs in Barcelona and with the help of the Labdoo tools she has successfully deployed educational laptops in 30 schools in South America, Africa and South-East Asia. Montse was born in Ecuador and lives in Barcelona, where she is a professional congress organizer.
Ousman Umar left Ghana at the age of 14 on a multi-year journey crossing the deserts of Africa and sailing the Atlantic ocean on a man-made boat to reach Spain in his quest for education. Today he studies at the University of Barcelona and is the President of Nasco Foundation, an organization that partners with Labdoo to bring laptops loaded with education software to schools in Ghana. With the help of the Labdoo tools, Ousman has delivered educational laptops to four schools in his native country.
Jordi Ros is founder and the software developer of the humanitarian social network Labdoo.org. He grew up in Barcelona and went to graduate school in California. As a student, Jordi did several trips to the village of Antigua, in Guatemala, to bring laptops and to teach. With the help of many, one initial idea transformed into the collaborative Project Labdoo.org, which has grown from that first seed planted in Guatemala to support more than 650 schools in more than 100 countries. Jordi has a PhD in Computer Science and a Master in Economics from the University of California.
Supporting Team * * We would need hundreds of pages to include here all the people who are part of the real Labdoo supporting team. For lack of space, this section includes those that have been directly supporting this conference. To all of them, including those not in this list, our most heartfelt thank you for making the Labdoo project possible every day.
Elena Parpal is an economist by profession and a Labdooer by passion who's been a key leading member to help bootstrap Project Labdoo in the region of Barcelona. She has helped initiate five Labdoo Hubs and by using the Labdoo tools she has successfully delivered educational laptops to nine schools in countries such as India, Cameroon, Nepal, Vanuatu and Gambia. Elena works in public joint procurement for universities and research centers and has degrees in Economics from the University of Barcelona and the University of California.
Janice Wong was born and educated in New Zealand, and then moved abroad to work in New York as a consultant for non-profit and for-profit businesses. She was the principal designer on a variety of design projects in partnership with clients ranging from established Fortune 100 companies to entrepreneurial start-ups but more recently, she has directed her efforts to ensuring that women and girls worldwide have the protections and the opportunities that shield them from exploitation and injustice. She was introduced to Labdoo almost three years ago and has contributed to the delivery of laptops to Kenya, Pakistan, and Tibet.
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Vicenç Hontangas grew up running up and down from the Sanctuary de Queralt between home and school during the years that Mossen Josep M. Ballarín was the Rector of Queralt, from whom he learned the meaning of ‘human values’. Vicenç has worked all his life in a multitude of social projects to help provide equal opportunities to the most disadvantaged people, including the global fight to eradicate the Polio disease. For the past years, Vicenç has energetically helped bootstrap several Labdoo hubs and mobilize goodwill capacity to help spread education around the globe using the Labdoo collaborative tools.
Montse Vivero is the founder of Yachana-huasi (Y-h), a non-profit association created to give support to low-income families with a focus on children. Through Y-h, Montse met Jordi and Labdoo.org, starting thereafter multiple school projects to bring educational laptops to Ecuador. Montse was key to the creation of four Labdoo hubs in Barcelona and with the help of the Labdoo tools she has successfully deployed educational laptops in 30 schools in South America, Africa and South-East Asia. Montse was born in Ecuador and lives in Barcelona, where she is a professional congress organizer.
Jordi Vall studied computer engineering at Facultat d'Informàtica de Barcelona (UPC). After going through all those math classes he took a job in... publishing and filmmaking! That felt like a good idea, and it was. After years working in very creative environments, Jordi decided it was about time to put the computer engineering skills at work and started working at an IT startup. His initial relationship with Labdoo was quite personal, being a childhood friend of Jordi Ros, Labdoo’s creator. Now happily performing little tasks that can have a great impact in somebody else's life: spreading awareness here, sanitizing a laptop there... proud to bring a little grain of sand to Labdoo’s big endeavour.
Creative, multifaceted and enterprising, the soprano, musicologist and physician Patricia Caicedo has successfully developed various creative projects in the fields of music, communications, music education and technological innovation. In 2005 she founded the Barcelona Festival of Song, a Summer Program and a Concert Series focused on the study of the history and interpretation of the Latin American & Iberian vocal repertoire that has incorporated Internet2 to arrive to students in America Latina. She is the president of Mundo Arts Inc. and the director of EYECatalunya, a technological platform dedicated to the international promotion of Catalan creators. Born in Colombia Patricia lives in Barcelona since 1998.
Calvin Shen is original from Taiwan although as a kid he moved to California with his parents where they established new roots. Calvin is a high-tech serial entrepreneur, involved with the creation of start ups both in California and China. He is passionate about the “art of sustainably creating projects following the nature of all” not only from a technology point of view but specially from a human and planet Earth perspective. Calvin is in the Labdoo’s Board of Advisors and a happy father of two wonderful kids.
Wendy Lu is currently living in California. She is on Labdoo’s board of advisors and is the team lead of Labdoo California. She has worked in the computer automation field for many years. As a hobby, she also has experience in teaching cooking, Chinese classes and was the coordinator for her children after-school enrichment program. Her love for children education and passion for her job made her decide to devote herself to Labdoo. Wendy Lu is a co-founder of Project Labdoo and was responsible for creating the first Labdoo hubs in Taiwan.
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This Labdoo Conference is a non-profit event. No monetary donation has been accepted in order to deliver this event and the 15 Euro entrance fee is only to help cover the cost of the catering services. The conference is made possible thanks to many Labdooers in the area of Barcelona and around the world working in collaboration and with the in-kind contribution of the following sponsors:
providing the conference room and university services.
managing the online registration of the attendees and the catering.
printing the Labdoo posters and banner.
providing one stewardess to help at the registration counter during the conference event.
providing the conference batches and lanyards for each attendee. The Labdoo team wants to thank all the Labdooers that have contributed countless hours to help organize this event as well as all the sponsors above for their in‐kind contributions. Tag a laptop, spread education
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Labdoo Conference Barcelona 2016