Labdoo: Enabling Global Education - One School at a Time · FEEC/UNICAMP IA382

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Seminars-1-2026 - This article is part of a series.

Part 1: Academic Leadership in Global Standards: From Research Projects to IETF and 6G

Part 2: Human-AI Collaboration

Part 3: Back to basics: Unleashing the power of switches with simple hacks

Part 4: Traffic and Energy Load Balancing in Cooperative Dual-Powered Green Cellular Networks

Part 5: From Ground to Sky: Enhancing UAV Connectivity with 5G and Beyond (IEEE Distinguished Lecture)

Part 6: This Article

Part 7: From the Internet of Musical Things to the Musical Metaverse: enabling technologies and open challenges

Abstract #

Labdoo ( www.labdoo.org) began with a simple journey: delivering a set of educational laptops to a school in Guatemala. What started as a single grassroots effort has grown into a global movement, now supported by thousands of volunteers and reaching more than one million students across over 150 countries. This talk presents the Labdoo story — how it originated, how it operates, and how it leverages technology to enable large-scale, distributed collaboration. At a time when trust in institutions is increasingly challenged, Labdoo offers a practical example of how collaborative platforms can be designed to enable global trust by design. By aligning participants around a shared mission—universal access to education — it demonstrates how global communities can be mobilized to achieve meaningful impact.

Bio #

Jordi Ros-Giralt is founder, programmer and President of Labdoo ( www.labdoo.org), a not-for-profit humanitarian social network providing a solution to the Global Digital Divide. Labdoo is a distributed social network empowering everyone owning a laptop or tablet to participate in a global effort of providing access to Internet and education to all the children of the planet, using excess capacity and distributed resources without incurring any economic or environmental cost. The growing Labdoo project has already spread to more than 150 countries, servicing laptops loaded with educational software to more than 3000 schools and bringing education to more than 1 million students around the globe. In his professional life, Jordi is a computer scientist working at Qualcomm Technologies. He earned a PhD in Computer Science, an MS, and an MBA from the University of California, and a BSc in Telecommunications Engineering from BarcelonaTech. Jordi has published more than 100 scientific and business articles in the fields of computer science, economics and international development, and has presented his ideas and work at global conferences including TEDx and CES. He is the holder of the 2017 Alan Turing Award for best social impact from the Catalan Association of Computer Scientists.