[OLPC India] 60 XO's ???

[Marc Valentin]

Hi Amit,
We all know how things are moving in India. Many things work only by
giving a bribe. If you don't give a bribe than you just cannot go on
with your activities because somebody blocks everything. Corruption is
everywhere and make the work very difficult.
I feel OLPC India and Reliance would benefit from more transparency.
The current situation is dark, as Joshua said. For example : Is there
an official society called "OLPC India" ? Where is it located and who
are the members ? Is there a phone number to contact the society ? How
is Reliance (private company) involved in this ? If Reliance imported
a lot of XO, what do they want to do with them ? If distribution is
planned, how are the benefiting societies selected ?
The feeling we have here is that Reliance is distributing to
"friends", OLPC India being some kind of a "branch" of Reliance.
I hope you will come with some explanations and make this action more
transparent.
-Marc Valentin-


On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 8:58 PM, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:
> Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
>  > On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:39:06PM +0530, amit gogna wrote:
>  >
>  >>  Just Reliance ADA group and not INDUSTRIES is importing a large no. of XOs.
>  >> The distribution of XOs looks pretty packed but I will still see if I
>  >> can make space for your 60 XOs.
>  >>
>  >
>  > We are also interested in buying laptops. At what rate are they
>  > available? It would be great if you could communicate your plans to
>  > the mailing list. I feel like I am in the dark.
>  >
>  >
>  Same here. This is news to me.
>
>  Sameer
>
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