[OLPC India] Partnering with OLPC in India

Tue Sep 9 04:10:55 EDT 2008

Hi,
I didn't get this email from Satish Jha. Is it normal ? Is there some
problem again with the indian list ? Or it was posted somewhere else ?
About the content, I almost fell from my seat. As always in India,
people think BIG but just see the facts. So far it took one year to
import 500 machines and the organization is struggling to put just a
simple wiki website online ! (Sorry Amit ;-) )
By the way, we are still waiting to watch the record of the "OLPC
India day" of august.
-marc-

On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 11:06 PM, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 10:14 PM, Satish Jha OLPC <satish at laptop.org> wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>> Partnering with OLPC India
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> To this end, OLPC India will partner, collaborate, cooperate and engage with
>>  everyone willing from within the nation and anyone from abroad.
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>> OLPC India will follow the model outlined below:
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
>>
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
>>
>>
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>> 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.
>>
>>
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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
>> One Cambridge Center, 10th Floor
>> Cambridge, MA 02141
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>
> Hi Satish,
>
> Some questions for you:
>
> 1) Can you describe what "undertake to support at least x%  of all
> children" entails? Are we talking paying for the laptop, helping with
> their education, etc?
> 2) When you say localization, is this the language/script
> implementation part or something else?
> 3) Where do you see the volunteers fit in this picture? Many
> volunteers on this project do not live in India.
>
> Sameer
> --
> Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
> Associate Professor of Information Systems
> San Francisco State University
> San Francisco CA 94132 USA
> http://verma.sfsu.edu/
> http://opensource.sfsu.edu/
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