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Dear Colleague,
When I think about 2006 and what it meant for 50x15, a few words come to mind: Results … Progress … Success … Significance … Travel (okay, that last one is more personal, but it certainly was a big part of our global effort last year). My point is this: 50x15, together with partners in technology, education and government, made significant progress on our quest to enable 50 percent of the world’s population with affordable Internet access by the year 2015 – the primary goal of our initiative. This edition of the newsletter recaps some of the highlights and success stories from a benchmark year for us. As I reviewed the various articles, it’s clear that we are well on our way to delivering compelling solutions that help foster digital inclusion throughout the world. And that, we hope you’ll agree, is a very good thing.
Dan Shine
50x15 Program Director
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From São Paulo to South Africa, 50x15 initiatives deployed in 2006 enabled thousands of students in emerging growth countries to use computing devices and access the Internet for the first time. Get your passport ready as we offer a sample of the many articles highlighting some amazing results from the past year.
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AMD 50x15 Empowers Uganda Students
On August 4, 2006, thousands celebrated as secondary students in three schools in and around Kampala, Uganda were provided with a new link to the future, courtesy of a consortium led by AMD and the 50x15 initiative.
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The “Centro Social Nossa Senhora das Graças” (CSG) Learning Lab
CSG was launched in 1997 as a collaboration between NGOs and religious organizations in the low-income Osasco community of Jardim Conceição, São Paulo, Brazil. In the fall of 2005, AMD, under the aegis of the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) IT Access for Everyone (ITAFE) initiative, helped develop and launch the first Internet access and computer education program at the CSG facilities.
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Flavio Pimenta: Marching to the Tune of His Own Drum with Help from AMD
Flavio Pimenta’s personal crusade to help the youth of São Paulo stay off the streets has grown into a diverse after school program with nearly 5,000 students. At Meninos do Morumbi (literally translated as Boys from Morumbi), students (girls and boys) can choose from art, sports, digital inclusion, English and music classes as part of their program. With one of Pimenta's goals being the increase of digital inclusion and computer literacy among youth in Brazil, AMD saw the program as a natural fit for its 50x15 Learning Labs Program.
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AMD Connects Millions of Students in China to the Internet
What began early last year as an ambitious partnership between AMD, Lenovo and Dawning to connect 200,000 students in China's Hebei Province to the Internet has grown into a massive nationwide effort in which the three industry partners have already deployed more than 210,000 computers in schools across 18 provinces, enabling literally millions of students in China with computing capability and Internet access.
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50x15 was all over the place in 2006, including the news.
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Winners Announced in 50x15 "Connecting the World" Design Contest
The winning teams of the inaugural "Connecting the World" product design contest were announced Wednesday, December 13, 2006. The team from the University of Chile received the Chairman's Award for GOTA, an affordable Internet connectivity solution that local water utility companies would commercialize for rural populations. The team from UnicenP, a university in Brazil, received the Judges' Award for E-Cipó, an Internet access terminal that utilizes GPRS wireless technology to connect to television sets via UHF signals thus eliminating the need for a computer monitor.
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Ecosystems Offer Diverse Global Solutions
Since launching 50x15 in 2004, AMD has learned that enabling the world's population with affordable Internet access will require robust partnerships and a variety of technical solutions. The diversity in the digital and cultural landscape around the world presents a challenge that requires multiple organizations all working together to achieve a common goal. Successful deployments require established local "geo-sensitive" ecosystems. These ecosystems must comprise various combinations of local governments, NGOs, partner organizations, educational institutions, and thought leaders.
Let's travel around the world and look at a few examples of how these ecosystems have increased connectivity and changed lives.
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An ecosystem of Partners is critical to reaching our goal of connecting 50 percent of the world to affordable computing devices and Internet access by 2015. And when Partners such as Microsoft and OLPC provide world-changing technologies like FlexGo™ and the $100 Laptop, respectively, new opportunities are opened up for millions of people. Read about the Partners and products helping 50x15 realize its vision of a connected global population.
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Pay As You Grow
Microsoft® FlexGo™ technology enables pricing models that make computers affordable in emerging markets. When consumers in the developed world want to purchase a new computer, most simply log on to a PC manufacturer's Web site or trek down to the mall and get one. It's easy to forget that there are still parts of the world in which owning a PC is an unattainable luxury.
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Knowing that one-third of 50x15 Connections readers are c-level leaders, we presented a series of executive perspectives and Q&As on the topic of digital inclusion and 50x15. Two highlights from that series are presented in our Best of 2006 issue.
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50x15 Q&A with Henri Richard
Executive Vice President and Chief Sales and Marketing Officer at AMD, Henri Richard, talks about AMD's global influence, the 50x15 initiative, the acquisition of ATI and more.
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Q&A with Gustavo Arenas, Corporate Vice President, High Growth Markets, AMD at the World Economic Forum on Africa
Government is not the answer to every problem, but when it comes to technology access, it is the single most important factor everywhere in the world. AMD's Gustavo Arenas sat down with leaders of the World Economic Forum at the organization's South African Summit meeting in late May. He shared his thoughts about the important role governments around the world must play in putting technology into the hands of people in high-growth markets and how competition and innovation are the critical catalysts for success.
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