Benjamin Koo
From Open Source Ecology
- Born in Taiwan
- Associate Professor at Tsinghua University
- In general everyone is rather selfish, not local university
- Founder of http://www.greenelectronicschallenge.com/
- China is fully colonized by multinationals
- No intention of operating sustainably. Locals just want to steal from Gummit.
- No competition for real business
- Xixihar - university does contract education of farmers
- President of University - wants to build local hacker community. A hacker-based curriculum across all disciplines on campus.
- Founder of Extreme Learning Program at Tsinghua university.
- Mitch Altman proposed a Hacker in Residence Program. Also involve local tech schools which have extreme fabrication facilities. Government entities. Have unlimited budgets. Students pay tuition.
- Tsinghua University is the youngest, but politically powerful like Harvard, MIT, Yale, Princeton combined.
- Tsinghua is the best university in China in terms of volume and engineering capacity - about 10-20 bigger than any other Chinese university.
- Want to create a meaningful opportunity for China.
- Biggest problem in china has been farmer's revolution. Such as Chairman Mao.
