[OLPC India] Businessweek article on OLPC India

[Sameer Verma]

Saswat Praharaj wrote:
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> 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
> <http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_24/b4088048125608.htm>
> (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.
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> 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
> <http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/aug2006/gb20060816_021986.htm>
> (BusinessWeek.com, 8/16/06). .....
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> http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/aug2008/gb2008083_550101.htm
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The article is interesting, but the comment from Satish Jha is even more
interesting. See it on page 2 of the article.

Sameer

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Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Information Systems
San Francisco State University
San Francisco CA 94132 USA
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