[OLPC India] India

[Arjun Sarwal]

Dear Ms Gowri,

We appreciate your concern with regard to people just looking for
information as to when and how; to have to look through a lot of technical
posts on the mailing list.

We are in the process of developing a database and mechanisms on the wiki to
co-ordinate efforts of organizations/people wanting to get involved with
OLPC in India.

You might also want to have a look at the 'Give Many' program (part of the
G1G1) starting in November., which allows you to buy 100+/1000+/10000+
laptops
http://laptopfoundation.org/participate/givemany.shtml


Also, I'd recommend all related queries to also be copied to
olpc-india at laptop.org which is the email id for the OLPC- India foundation,
which would be spearheading distribution efforts in India.


Thank you for your interest.

Regards,
Arjun



On 10/25/07, Usha Gowri <usha.gowri at gmail.com > wrote:
>
> I have been following up with the digest and am wondering if it is a good
> idea to have two sets of digests-one for the technical folks and the other
> for those of us waiting to buy the computers and start using them in the
> rural areas.
> The Government has been keen to implement ICTs and computer based
> education in rural schools as also in the Government and corporation
> schools.It will be a good idea to start the  process and to work with
> volunteers like me who have  been in this space  for  a long time to fire
> -fight or pro-actively solve problems so typical to an Indian
> environment.For us ,bottle necks  are the in things and we know how to get
> past them.
> So it might be a good idea to help those  of us waiting to start ,by
> formulating a plan and setting off the process.
> I am sure the whole thing looks daunting -the sheer size of the country
> and differences-the bottlenecks-but starting is a good way to go ahead.
> Also because we have thought out methods and ways of reaching an
> exciting-oh-so useful -product like this to many and the uncertainty is
> definitely worrying .
> Warm regards
> Gowri
>
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Arjun Sarwal < arjun at laptop.org>
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