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Part One
 -What is the organization? Answer: The organization is one laptop per child -What exactly are they doing to try and combat or change your issue? Answer: They are providing one laptop per child and they are working to provide network connections to the poorest children in the world, and for each one of them to have a low cost, rugged laptop to survive any conditions. -What are some of the things you like about their program? Answer: They are a completely non-profit organization that want to provide a good education for the entire world, and their laptops are cheap and they get the job done. -What are some questions you have about it? Answer: I want to know what the cost of producing the laptops are, and where they produce the laptops. -How could you become involved with this organization or model your action plan after it? Answer: We can contact the organizations and check to see if there are any branches in China, and we can transport the laptops to the children that need them. By: Willy Back to Top

-What is the organization?  Answer: The organization is digital divide.org -What exactly are they doing to try and combat or change your issue? Answer: The issue is that there are not much access to technology for the people who need it. The poor are ignored because market forces assume that designing solutions for them will not be profitable. -What are some of the things you like about their program? Answer: I like this program because it explains things specifically and they actually try to do some thing to help out the poor people and how that don’t have as much as technology as us, sometimes they don’t have ANY. -What are some questions you have about it? Answer: Some questions i have are.. Why they try to help out so much to the poor people? And why closing the digital divide matters? -How could you become involved with this organization or model your action plan after it? Answer: I could be involved with this because we are already trying to solve a problem about digital divide in my group, they are doing the same thing, so it’s similar, except theirs is more professional. By: Bengi Back to Top

Part Two
 -What is the specific topic your group decided to focus on? Answer: Our specific topic we chose to focus on is Digital Divide in Shanghai. We chose to focus on this because we live in Shanghai and so we can observe how bad digital divide is personally. We chose digital divide because we all have technology and we'd be really isolated from society, family, and friends without it. My cousin and her family doesn't have access to a computer, and neither do my grandparents. When I visit their house in Shanghai, I always feel like I'm missing something, which is internet access. To me, I don't understand how it is that they can live without a computer. When I ask people who don't have computers, if they want a computer, they always answer "of course, it's just that we can't afford one". We think digital divide is totally solvable and if everyone just puts in a little effort and money, it's something we can overcome. (: -Which organization did you choose to focus on and why? Answer: We chose one laptop per child, because their overall goal is to provide a higher education to poorer people in the world by giving them low cost, rugged laptops that are connected to the internet. They want to break the digital divide barrier. -What exactly are they doing to try and combat or change your issue? Answer: They are giving laptops to children that are poor so they can have access to higher education. -What are some of the things you like about their program? Answer: They are completely non-profit and the laptops that they have are really nice. -How do you plan to become involved with this organization or model your action plan after it? Answer: First, we plan to visit schools in Shanghai and observe the digital divide there. We will be looking for the digital divide between the rich kids, like us in international schools and the native kids, in normal Chinese schools. We have a feeling that there will be a lot of difference. Because we are still students, we can't actually send a computer to anyone yet because we don't have the money. But, we can raise money and donate it to a digital divide organization like "one laptop per child" to help them. We can raise money by making donation boxes and putting them in like my church or a supermarket. If a miracle happens, we really can buy a laptop and send it to a school. (: Back to Top

Related Tasks
 -Make a list of relevant articles and statistics on the issue. http://www.digitaldivide.org/dd/digitaldivide.html  This is an article that explains why digital Divide matters, what it is, and why closing the digital divide matters. http://www.useit.com/alertbox/digital-divide.html  This site explains the three stages of the digital divide, which are economic divide, usability divide, and the empowerment divide. http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/06/america-the-growing-digital-divide/  This site explains how digital divide keeps growing and growing. -Make a list of organizations that people can join to get involved in this issue and petitions that people can sign. http://news.cnet.com/2010-1071-858537.html  In this sign you can be a member and help out in stuff. http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/netacad/digital_divide/index.html  in this sit you can join and be a part of the organizations, you can also search for stuff. http://www.flexibility.co.uk/issues/debates/divide.htm  In this site, there is a part where it says, “Take action” and in the paragraph it talks about how people are tying to help out. -Make a list of relevant images, youtubes and videos you have collected on the issue http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6AQv2l6UsM  This video talks about digital divide, and it’s really effective and interesting. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UHHPOzUNas&feature=related <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> this video shows the bad things about digital divide and what is going on. Back to Top Back to Home