... finally, we bring the laptop
to a recycling factory where its
components are properly recycled
and brought back to planet
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The Circle of Life:
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earth, and a new cycle starts...
signal!
Everything comes from earth...
computers are made of silver,
copper, lead, aluminum...
transportation
factory
Dootripper community
Call for laptop pick-up:
transportation
Sms, tweet, email
Tag and forward!
sales
store
Current tagging zones:
Barcelona, Belgium,
California, China,
Guatemala, Honduras,
Kenya, Madrid,
Massachusetts, Nigeria,
Taiwan
Social network
dootrip
...then computers are typically
...and then they are used in
deployed in the developed
productive ways, often by
world...
scientist in search of new ideas
and technologies...
Dooplet: automatically
S5
signals when a laptop
needs recycling
Dootrips
Register traveling
...after 3 or 4 years, through
schedule (dootrip)
the process of “creative
...or even worse,
destruction”, a computer becomes
...so we go and buy a
older laptops end
obsolete...
up being trashed
new computer...
and millions of
Earth call for
dootrip
polluting
laptops
...our older laptop is still
So millions of laptops are
NGO
People traveling with excess
capacity in their luggage
times more powerful than the
eWaste.
chips become
global eWaste...
computer we used to bring a
sitting idle or becoming
Social network
eWaste
man to the moon in 1969, yet
we let it sit in our drawer,
idle...
What can we do?
... demand kicks in: the
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Assign laptop to
working and is thousands of
semiconductor
laptop is assigned to a
school
school via a NGO
responsible for the
dootripper
deployment...
BIG TASK
We can use a social network to
mobilize idle resources, bring
digital
awareness and make informed
... time lags supply /
decisions.
demand: the laptop now
S3
Digital divide
is put in the inventory
Knowledge
… using the social network tools,
waiting for demand...
every owner of a laptop takes
upon a mini mission:
laptop to a child
to bring a
divide
Drops of goodwill with
zero opportunity cost
Social network
... once a laptop
is no longer
needed, it's
marked as S1,
initiating the
process to bring it
to a child...
S1
TAG!
... we start by tagging each
available laptop in the planet so
that we can build a global
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inventory and track the progress
S0
of our mini mission...
... using the dashboard tools,
now it's time to sanitize the
laptop and install in it the
education packages...
S2
... we can then use the
supply
school
school
school
school
Dashboard Tools
demand
Examples of grassroots strategies to mobilize laptop resources:
global inventory to track
sources of supply (the
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laptops) and sources of
demand (schools)...
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Leveraging the work done by
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global volunteer programmers
writing open source education
software
*All the drawings in this drawing were either obtained from open source libraries or created by the Labdoo Team
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Tag and forward
(TAF)
Buy and tag
(BAT)
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Make and tag (MAT)