[OLPC India] Partnering with OLPC in India

[Satish Jha OLPC]

After various discussions with industrialists, activists, policy makers,
media folks and OLPC colleagues we have established teh following framework
for partnering with OLPC in India. It will be reveiwed periodically from the
perspective of reaching the goals of One Laptop Per Child in India and that
is to help every child etering the primary school have access to a personal
XO.
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*Partnering with OLPC India*





OLPC India has a substantial mandate – to help every child across the length
and breadth of India to have the benefit of digital learning technologies
that OLPC creates, or may create, to help them become  global citizens.



The challenge , at the initial stage, is  to annually engage about 20
million children entering the primary school system across the length and
the breadth of the nation. Clearly, it requires each and every one of us to
come forward  to help each of these children having the educational
facilities that technologies of our times can afford.



While we hope the governments of all the states will come forward to embrace
it as the learning tool of choice for all their primary school going
children, we need the support of individuals with resources to contribute,
corporations that believe in their corporate social responsibilities,
foundations that aid developmental initiatives, members of Parliament and
Assemblies  who have discretionary developmental funds at their disposal and
everyone else who is committed to making India a nation of people with all
the necessary skills that 21st century  demands from us.



To this end, OLPC India will partner, collaborate, cooperate and engage with
 everyone willing from within the nation and anyone from abroad.



OLPC India will follow the model outlined below:



*Lead Partners*: Each of the Lead Partners will undertake to support at
least 5%  of all children entering the primary schools across the country.
They will have a seat on the Board of Directors of OLPC India and an
opportunity to participate in shaping its goals and directions as well as
co-development of any technology where they are demonstrably ready, able and
willing to join hands.





*National Partners*: Each of the National Partners will undertake to support
at least 1% of all children entering the primary schools across the country.
They will have a seat on the Advisory Board of OLPC India and an opportunity
to participate in co-development of any technology where they are
demonstrably ready, able and willing to join hands with OLPC.



*State Partner*: Each of the State Partners will undertake to support at
least 5% all children entering the primary school within a state. They will
have a seat on the state level OLPC Advisory Board and will have an
opportunity to participate in localization efforts. An organization may
choose to be a Partner in several States.



*District Partners*: Each of the District Partners will undertake to support
at least 10% of all primary school entering children within the district and
will have a seat on the District Level Advisory Board. An organization may
choose to be a Partner in several Districts.



*Block Level Partners*: The Block Level Partners will undertake to support
at least 20%  of all primary school entering children within the Block and
will have a seat on the District Level Advisory Board. An organization may
choose to be a Partner in several Blocks.



*Village Level Partner*: Each of the Village Level Partners will undertake
to support all children entering the primary school within a village. They
will have a seat on the state level OLPC Advisory Board and will have an
opportunity to participate in localization efforts. An organization may
choose to be a Partner in several States.



*Individual Partner*: Individual Partners may undertake to support any
number of children starting with just one. They will have no organizational
privileges but will be able to join relevant listservs and engage in OLPC
discussions in the area of their choosing.



*Give One Get One (G1G1)*: Any organization willing to support G1G1 in India
must commit to have 100,000 XOs in inventory for sales as requested by the
G1G1 buyer. The other 100,000 will be distributed to needy children in
regions selected by OLPC India.




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Satish Jha
President & CEO
OLPC India
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Cambridge, MA 02141
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