[OLPC India] India Digest, Vol 23, Issue 11

[Edward Cherlin]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 10:08 PM, Satish Jha <sjha at vsnl.com> wrote:
> Let us think from the point of how do we make it happen..
> That will change the way we look at it..

+1

> How do banks finance education? It did not exist in the country just a few
> years ago.. Now the banks finance @$50,000 per year for students who can get
> admission overseas.. How did that happen??
>
> Rs 15,000 can be a huge thing and can be a small thing..
> Every single entrepreneur looks ta the funds raised for investment as a
> manageable thing though typically its way beyond their capacity to come up
> with..
>
> Think like an entrepreneur and one may change the world.
> Think like an employment seeking candidate and one may have to go hungry
> many a nights..
>
> A nation of entrepreneurs may have a better capacity to feed itself and
> beyond..
>
> As long as India was run by bureaucrats in the main, it was not spoken about
> anywhere in the world with any sense of respect and then some very small
> entrepreneurs changes it all.. Today, Bangalore is a better known city than
> many of those that still live in their "glorious past"
>
> I spoke to the IT minister of another country and suggested they should go
> to IDA and raise funds at low interest rates with a 12 year moratorium. They
> are moving in that direction. Will the Indian education minister or IT
> minister think along those lines?
>
> We seem happy that a couple million folks have given us some name globally
> and get us some $50Bilion in forex every year.. But are we not a nation of
> 1200 million people? Are we not facing quality issue with the manpower that
> could support global services? How do we invest in education of the next
> generation? Let us begin thinking about it instead of being the nay-Sayers..
>
> We have 15 years of experience to support that even in our country thinking
> like an entrepreneur works.. Let us go and ask K V Kamath of ICICI Bank to
> think about it and he will surely find a way or any other and all Bank
> chairmen who can see beyond their nose, have interest in growth and building
> a strong economy..

I would be delighted to assist in putting that proposal together.
Earth Treasury is about to launch a comprehensive program combining
donated computers and ancillary equipment for education, with the
renewable electricity and storage and the broadband Internet to
support their use, all put into place through microfinance.
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