Promoting Digital Technologies for the Majority

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Promoting Digital Technologies for the Majority
Nuevas ideas y Reingeniería Más rápido, más
lejos, más barato...

• Marcelo Knörich Zuffo
• mkzuffo_at_lsi.usp.br
• Full Professor
• Laboratório de Sistemas Integráveis
• Escola Politécnica
• Universidade de São Paulo

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Agenda

• Introduction
• Our Innovation Model
• Case Studies
• Low Cost Laptops
• Telehealth on Children Oncology

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Tecnologia, Inovação e Responsabilidade
Social www.lsitec.org.br
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Our focus

• To promote developing and innovation by digital
  technology means
• Some projects
• Low cost laptops
• Telehealth for childhood cancer care
• Digital cities
• Digital TV
• National Science and Engineering Fair
• Public Key Infrastructure

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Approach

• Local problem world opportunity
• Open standards and open technologies
• Focus on life quality improvement
• Education
• health
• Network model
• Universities, Companies and Goverment

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Our Innovation Cycle
Transfer
Developing
Research
TECNOLOGY
SOCIETY
KNOWLEDGE
IDÉIAS
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Low Cost Laptops
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Low Cost Laptops

• The research
• One-to-one computer model in basic education
• The Developing
• A state of art laptop for less than US 100
• The Transfer
• 55 Million students in Brazilian Educational
  System
• The Innovation
• Enhance the quality of education

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Project Time-Line
150K Laptops 300 High Schools
MARCH 2008
Jan/05
Jun/05
Aug/05
Sep/05
March/07
May/07
Jan/07
Jul/06
Nov/06
OLPC is presented to the Brazilian President
Technical Evaluation, Research, motherboard tests
workshops, visits, panels, etc.
OLPC Prototypes delivered for lab tests
Pedagogical Work Group

• INTEL Prototypes delivered for field tests
• Piraí, RJ (400)
• - Palmas, TO (400)

Brazilian Gov hires 5 Univ. Labs for mesh network
research and evaluation
Brazilian Official Mission to OLPC
Negroponte announcement in Davos

• OLPC Prototypes delivered for field tests
• São Paulo (100 150 ?)
• Porto Alegre (100 150 ?)
• ENCORE prototypes
• - Brasília (40)

Brazilian Government hires RD institutions
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The research

• Diverse pedagogical models
• Several use contexts
• Robust and durable
• Lost cost
• Intuitive (very easy usage) pedagogical focus,
  forget about technology
• 100 availability e 100 connectivity
• Access to several high quality contends,
  socialization and autor ship
• Flexible
• light, portable, low energy consuption
• Mobile (wireless)
• Open standard
• Open source

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The Developing
Classmate-PC Intel
Mobilis Encore-India
XO OLPC
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The Transfer
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The Innovation

• After 3 days (1 hour a day)
• Teachers decided to try with children

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The Innovation
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The Innovation
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The Innovation

• First questions from children
• It is mine ?
• Can I take home ?
• How they made it ?
• Can I take my picture with it ?
• From were energy come ?
• From were internet come ?

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A Week Later
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Feedback
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Our Student Volunteers

• Support for students and teachers
• Energy maintenance
• Internet support
• Technology support
• Support for new volunteers
• Home support

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Three Months Later
Visits to Museums in Downtown
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Recent Developing

• School blog
• Memory Game
• Music Games
• WEB Editor
• Augmented Reality

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Recent Developing

• Digital TV on the Laptop

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Solar WIFI Mesh
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Digital Health in Children Oncology
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Digital Health In Cancer

• The research
• Cure by digital means (information and
  communication)
• 8 in every 100 humans will develop any sort of
  cancer
• The Developing
• An open standard Information System for Cancer
  cure
• The Transfer
• Public and private health sector
• The Innovation
• Enhance the cure rate in developing countries

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Cancer in Developing Countries

• Cancer is the second leading cause of death in
  many developed countries
• In 2005, cancer claimed more than twice as many
  lives as AIDS
• Cancer is often regarded as a disease of the
  developed world, but with improved living
  standards and longer life expectancy, incidence
  in low- and middle-income countries is on the
  rise
• By 2030, seven out of every ten new cases will
  occur in the developing world 1

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Introduction

• Cancer registration is the foundation stone on
  which cancer control rests. Lack of reliable data
  on the cancer burden of a country is a serious
  barrier to planning effective cancer control
  activities. Hospital registries are the first
  step in collecting information that will
  eventually lead, on a macro scale, to estimate
  the burden of disease in a country. Registries
  also provide key data that can be used to
  allocate limited human and financial resources
  correctly.
• UICC (International Union Against Cancer) 2

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The Onconet Project

• Objectives
• An International RD Network
• Support for prevention, diagnosis, care and
  management
• Telehealth model for developing countries
• To offer the best cure practices by information
  means

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Applications Developed

• Childhood cancer portal
• Electronic medical record
• On-line treatment protocols
• Cancer registry system
• Low-cost videoconferencing
• Medical distance learning
• Collaborative medical system
• 3D medical imaging
• Virtual reality simulator
• Anatomy pathology system

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User Infrastructure

• A DESKTOP PC
• And an
• INTERNET CONNECTION
• Is all that you need !

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Results

• Adult cancer
• A system to suport 350 thousand patients (8-12
  million target)
• Childhood cancer
• 53 hospitals in 23 states (target 70 hospitals in
  27 states)
• 6.000 children on-line (target 60.000)
• Latin American system to be launched in 2008
  (target 4 countries)
• Research Partners
• 19 RD organizations connected
• Awards
• CONIP 2007 - Improvment and Modernization of
  Public Services
• Fundação Banco do Brasil
• Aché Responsabilidade Social

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Thank you !

• mkzuffo_at_lsi.usp.br