[OLPC India] Businessweek article on OLPC India

[Saswat Praharaj]

Nicholas Negroponte has found it tough going in India. For years as the
head of MIT's Media Lab, the famed computer scientist promoted radical
ways to use technology to transform society. His best-known idea is the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) program (BusinessWeek,
6/5/08), a plan to make a simple, $100 laptop that would create a
digitally literate generation in the hardscrabble classrooms of
emerging-market nations. The laptop, now dubbed the XO, is finally
being mass-produced in China. 
In 2001, the computer scientist came to India to promote the Media
Lab, but failed to impress New Delhi. Negroponte clearly fell off the
India map, when then-Information Technology Minister Arun Shourie
dismissed his efforts as "pedagogically suspect" and wanted more
accountability. When Negroponte's nonprofit One Laptop per Child
foundation approached the Indian government in 2006, his project was again rebuffed by India's then-Education Secretary, Sudeep Banerjee (BusinessWeek.com, 8/16/06). .....



More here :
http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/aug2008/gb2008083_550101.htm


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Saswat


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