[OLPC India] India Digest, Vol 14, Issue 16

[Usha Gowri]

Marc
I find your honest open style of writing so refreshing.
Half baked ,ill-informed information and people get away as experts.
We have become like the proverbial cat who beleives that because it has
closed its eyes ,night has set in.
Blind and silly.
You are so right in pointing out how backward we till are,how little has
reached the people and how much suffering is taken for granted in the  rural
areas.
G

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> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:58:43 +0100
> From: "Marc Valentin" <mvalentin at oeuvredespains.org>
> Subject: Re: [OLPC India] Article in Indiatimes
>
> This article is not serious...
> This kind of laptop is not for children of 15 ! This is much too old. Ok,
> right, the girl is 10 but...
> Their target audience are children of developing countries. Not the
> daughter
> of a 'rich and educated' journalist or the son of a 'rich and educated'
> American.
> To do a serious article, they had to go in a village and give the computer
> to a child having both parents uneducated. But that is maybe too difficult
> ?
> It certainly is for Indian journalists... But that is not all, they also
> don't want to show the reality of the country, India is not an IT
> paradise.
> Accepting the true reality is the first step for development but many
> educated Indians are not ready for that.
> Do you know India has the world higher percentage of leprosy ?
>
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