[OLPC India] Decisions

[Satish Jha]

 Gowri,

This is great. Appreciate your taking the positive view forward and you have
all my support.
I plan to come over to Bangalore in the middle of the month. Let us take it
offline and organize.

Thanks and best.

  On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 11:19 PM, Usha Gowri <usha.gowri at gmail.com> wrote:

>   Well...I couldn't keep out of this thread anymore and hence I am here.
> I read all your mails and am sure that we know nothing about each other -to
> ask Marc do you know rural life was for me, well,"funny" because he runs a
> rural school. To know that Satish came from a rural background is for me
> interesting. So we all have a wealth of knowledge and information that comes
> from hands-on experience at the grass root level.
>
>  Now can we find a commonality in our experiences?-no way because like the
> blind men and the elephant we are talking the same thing that is not same in
> any way: each village, each state is going to be so different that we have
> to think out different ways as we go along. Traditional methods are not
> going to work-we have to be  different and think on our feet-therein lies
> the challenge and the joy of success
>
> This also means all our experiences shared here are real and cannot be
> questioned because that is the ethos in that place.
>
> Let's leave out comparisons with other countries-if only India was as
> simple as another country we would be different-the sheer diversity even in
> poverty is stunning-no two guys are poor in a similar way.
>
> Ask the tribal who said: we are not poor ,we only don't have money!!
>
> I think I am going to take the lead: I can feel frustration and anger and
> that is not going to help. We are sitting in front of a feast and we don't
> know how to eat-frustrating.
>
> So step1:  who are the real participants in this process? In other
> words-how many of us are going to /willing to go the whole hog? I don't mean
> the mailing list-I mean the real doers
>
> Step 2: if we are, then can we just list names and e-mail ids and info on
> our  geographical presence.
>
> Step 3:  what is the expertise available
>
> Step 4:  As I told Satish, I am experimenting a particular mode of getting
> the product across to the children-let me see if it works and I will share
> it in this forum. Do others have similar thoughts and ideas? Can we collect
> data?
>
>  I am a strong votary for the South .Satish, can we form regional groups?
> Can we then come to the mother group and share information? I am willing to
> help with South India. I know you all did a Bangalore prog but well...I
> don't wish to comment on it. Can we find real players who want to
> participate and can take it forward? I can get you a few.
>
> Step 5: Also if we have a particular skill set-helping find
> donors/funders/bankers would you like  to share it with the group? In fact
> what we need is one nationalized bank to show some interest-we can always
> quote it elsewhere
>
> Step 6: Trust the members and give us something concrete in our hands to
> carry to the funders: I spoke to some people here in TN and Bangalore and he
> said I am excited but show me a product and tell me more. Well….I am lucky
> that they know me personally. So if we are formalizing this process-how can
> OLPC help?
>
> Step 7: Call the NGO's for a meet- by that I mean call the grassroot guys
> who have soiled their hands not in the air-conditioned comfort of their
> offices. Show the product and share all concerns and problems. THEY can come
> up with solutions that can be so simplistic that it can take your breath
> away –but also one that is workable and real and one that's fits the local
> ethos.
>
> How can we take this forward?
>
> --
> Gowri
> VP-Intl Marketing
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> www.usasiaedu.com
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> come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank >car... a
> teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result >they
> get little." ~ Ben Sweetland
>
>
> "Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you
> from growing. You get to choose."Dr. Wayne Dyer
>
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