Nicholas Negroponte takes OLPC to Colombia

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It's amazing, when you meet a head of state and you say,

Fantastično je kad se sastanete sa šefom države i kažete:

"What is your most precious natural resource?" --

"Koji vam je najvredniji prirodni izvor?"

they will not say children at first.

Neće prvo spomenuti djecu.

And then when you say children,

A kad vi spomenete djecu,

they will pretty quickly agree with you.

vrlo brzo će se složiti s vama.

(Video): We're traveling today with

(video): Danas putujemo

the Minister of Defense of Colombia,

s kolumbijskim ministrom obrane,

head of the army and the head of the police,

zapovjednikom vojske i policije,

and we're dropping off 650 laptops

i dostavljamo 650 prijenosnika

today to children

djeci

who have no television, no telephone

koja nemaju televiziju ni telefon

and have been in a community

i koja žive u zajednici

cut off from the rest of the world

odsječenoj od ostatka svijeta

for the past 40 years.

posljednjih 40 godina.

The importance of delivering laptops to this region

Važnost donošenja prijenosnih računala u ovo područje

is connecting kids who have otherwise been unconnected

jest u tome što ona povezuju djecu koja inače nisu bila povezana

because of the FARC,

zbog FARC-a,

the guerrillas that started off 40 years ago

gerilske organizacije koja je nastala prije 40 godina

as a political movement and then became a drug movement.

kao politički pokret, a kasnije se počela baviti drogom.

There are one billion children in the world,

Na svijetu ima milijardu djece,

and 50 percent of them don't have electricity

a 50 posto njih nema električnu struju

at home or at school.

ni kod kuće ni u školi.

And in some countries -- let me pick Afghanistan --

U nekim zemljama -- primjerice Afganistanu --

75 percent of the little girls don't go to school.

75% djevojčica ne ide u školu.

And I don't mean that they drop out of school

I to ne znači da prekinu školovanje

in the third or fourth grade -- they don't go.

u trećem ili četvrtom razredu -- one se uopće ne školuju.

So in the three years

U tri godine

since I talked at TED and showed a prototype,

otkad sam govorio na TED-u i pokazao prototip,

it's gone from an idea

više nemamo samo ideju,

to a real laptop.

već i pravo prijenosno računalo.

We have half a million laptops today

Danas je pola milijuna prijenosnih računala

in the hands of children.

u rukama djece.

We have about a quarter of a million in transit

Oko četvrt milijuna je u transportu

to those and other children,

do te i druge djece

and then there are another quarter of a million more

i postoji još četvrt milijuna

that are being ordered at this moment.

koja se naručuju u ovom trenutku.

So, in rough numbers, there are a million laptops.

U grubo, postoji oko milijun prijenosnika.

That's smaller than I predicted --

To je manje nego što sam predvidio --

I predicted three to 10 million --

predvidio sam tri do deset milijuna --

but is still a very large number.

ali to je ipak velik broj.

In Colombia, we have about 3,000 laptops.

U Kolumbiji imamo oko 3.000 prijenosnih računala.

It's the Minister of Defense with whom we're working,

Radimo s ministrom obrane,

not the Minister of Education, because it is seen as

a ne ministrom obrazovanja jer se ovo smatra

a strategic defense issue

pitanjem strateške obrane

in the sense of liberating these zones

u smislu oslobađanja zona

that had been completely closed off,

koje su bile potpuno zatvorene,

in which the people who had been causing, if you will,

u kojima su živjeli ljudi koji su uzrokovali, da tako kažem,

40 years' worth of bombings and kidnappings

40 godina bombardiranja, otmica

and assassinations lived.

i ubojstava.

And suddenly,

I odjednom,

the kids have connected laptops.

djeca imaju umrežene prijenosnike.

They've leapfrogged.

Iznimno su napredovali.

The change is absolutely monumental,

Promjena je nevjerojatna

because it's not just opening it up,

jer ne radi se samo o tome da smo otvorili ta područja,

but it's opening it up to the rest of the world.

već smo ih otvorili ostatku svijeta.

So yes, they're building roads, yes, they're putting in telephone,

Da, oni grade ceste, da, uvode telefon,

yes, there will be television.

da, imat će i televiziju.

But the kids six to 12 years old

Ali djeca između 6 i 12 godina

are surfing the Internet in Spanish and in local languages,

surfaju internetom na španjolskom i lokalnim jezicima,

so the children grow up

što znači da odrastaju

with access to information,

s pristupom informacijama,

with a window into the rest of the world.

imaju prozor prema ostatku svijeta.

Before, they were closed off.

Prije su bili zatvoreni.

Interestingly enough, in other countries,

Zanimljivo je da će u drugim zemljama

it will be the Minister of Finance who sees it

uglavnom ministar financija ovaj projekt smatrati

as an engine of economic growth.

pokretačem gospodarskog rasta.

And that engine is going to see the results in 20 years.

Taj će pokretač imati rezultate za 20 godina.

It's not going to happen, you know, in one year,

Neće se to dogoditi, znate, za godinu dana,

but it's an important, deeply economic

ali radi se o važnoj, duboko gospodarskoj

and cultural change

i kulturnoj promjeni

that happens through children.

koja se događa kroz djecu.

Thirty-one countries in total are involved,

Uključena je ukupno 31 zemlja,

and in the case of Uruguay,

a u slučaju Urugvaja,

half the children already have them,

polovica djece već ima prijenosna računala,

and by the middle of 2009,

a do sredine 2009.

every single child in Uruguay will have a laptop --

svako dijete u Urugvaju imat će prijenosno računalo --

a little green laptop.

mali zeleni prijenosnik.

Now what are some of the results?

Kakvi su rezultati?

Some of the results

Neki od rezultata

that go across every single country

koji postoje u svakoj zemlji

include teachers saying

jest da učitelji kažu

they have never loved teaching so much,

da nikad nisu toliko uživali u poučavanju,

and reading comprehension

te da se razumijevanje u čitanju,

measured by third parties -- not by us -- skyrockets.

što je mjerila treća strana, ne mi, nevjerojatno poboljšalo.

Probably the most important thing we see

Vjerojatno najvažnija stvar koju vidimo

is children teaching parents.

jest da djeca poučavaju roditelje.

They own the laptops. They take them home.

Oni su vlasnici prijenosnika i nose ih kući.

And so when I met with three children from the schools,

Kad sam se sastao s troje djece iz tih škola,

who had traveled all day to come to Bogota,

koja su putovala cijeli dan da bi došla u Bogotu,

one of the three children brought her mother.

jedna je djevojčica dovela svoju majku.

And the reason she brought her mother

A razlog zašto je dovela svoju majku

is that this six-year-old child

jest taj da je ta šestogodišnja djevojčica

had been teaching her mother

učila svoju majku

how to read and write.

čitati i pisati.

Her mother had not gone to primary school.

Njena majka nije išla u osnovnu školu.

And this is such an inversion,

To je takva inverzija

and such a wonderful example

i tako predivan primjer

of children being the agents of change.

kako djeca donose promjene.

So now, in closing, people say,

Sad, na kraju, ljudi kažu:

now why laptops?

"Zašto prijenosna računala?

Laptops are a luxury; it's like giving them iPods. No.

Prijenosnici su luksuz, to je kao da im dajete iPod." Ne.

The reason you want laptops

Razlog zašto želimo prijenosna računala

is that the word is education, not laptop.

jest taj što se tu radi o obrazovanju, ne o prijenosnicima.

This is an education project, not a laptop project.

Ovo je obrazovni projekt, ne projekt za prijenosna računala.

They need to learn learning. And then, just think --

Morate naučiti učiti. A tada, samo zamislite --

they can have, let's say, 100 books.

mogu imati, recimo, 100 knjiga.

In a village, you have 100 laptops,

U selu, ako imate 100 prijenosnika,

each with a different set of 100 books,

a na svakome imate drugih 100 knjiga,

and so that village suddenly has 10,000 books.

znači da to selo odjednom ima 10.000 knjiga.

You and I didn't have 10,000 books when we went to primary school.

Vi i ja nismo imali 10.000 knjiga kad smo išli u osnovnu školu.

Sometimes school is under a tree,

Ponekad se škola nalazi pod drvetom,

or in many cases, the teacher has only a fifth-grade education,

ili, u mnogim slučajevima, učitelj ima završenih samo 5 razreda škole,

so you need a collaborative model of learning,

tako da je potreban model suradnje u učenju,

not just building more schools and training more teachers,

a ne samo gradnja više škola i obrazovanje više učitelja,

which you have to do anyway.

što u svakom slučaju morate činiti.

So we're once again doing "Give One, Get One."

Zato smo opet pokrenuli program "Daj jedan, primi jedan".

Last year, we ran a "Give One, Get One" program,

Lani smo imali taj program

and it generated over 100,000 laptops

i donio je više od 100.000 prijenosnih računala

that we were then able to give free.

koje smo uspjeli dati besplatno.

And by being a zero-dollar laptop,

A budući da se radi o besplatnim prijenosnicima,

we can go to countries that can't afford it at all.

možemo ići u zemlje koje si ih uopće ne mogu priuštiti.

And that's what we did. We went to Haiti,

I upravo smo to i učinili. Otišli smo na Haiti,

we went to Rwanda, Afghanistan,

bili smo u Ruandi, Afganistanu,

Ethiopia, Mongolia.

Etiopiji, Mongoliji.

Places that are not markets,

Mjesta koja nemaju tržište,

seeding it with the principles of

upoznali smo ih s principima

saturation, connectivity, low ages, etc.

zasićenja, povezanosti, manje starosti i tako dalje.

And then we can actually roll out large numbers.

I tada stvarno dobivamo velike brojeve.

So think of it this way:

Gledajte to ovako:

think of it as inoculating children

to je kao cijepljenje djece

against ignorance.

protiv neznanja.

And think of the laptop as a vaccine.

A prijenosno računalo smatrajte cjepivom.

You don't vaccinate a few children.

Ne cijepite samo nekoliko djece.

You vaccinate all the children in an area.

Cijepite svu djecu u nekom području.