[OLPC India] moving forward..

Ananya Guha nnyguha48 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 22 13:18:14 EDT 2008


I agree with Marc. Though this a very ambitious and well intentioned
project, and I am fully supportive of its cause, one must be very clear in
implementing this in India, with its vast geographical terrain.

With Regards,

Ananya S Guha.

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Marc Valentin <mvalentin at oeuvredespains.org
> wrote:

>  > I am not so convinced with this "formula". Whoever ends up making the
> > decision about XO's let them decide where the XOs go. My family is
> > from UP and I grew up in Hyderabad, so I see the disparity you point
> > out to, but the metric for deciding where the XOs go and get
> > implemented is subject to many other variables than north and south.
> > What about Orissa? West Bengal? Assam, Rajasthan? No love for them?
>
> I absolutely agree with you that the problem is complex, more complex
> than north and south, villages and cities, ...
> A system like LDC internal to India could be a solution. But I was not
> thinking about an indian G1G1 only, I was thinking also about direct
> orders done by local governments or companies, etc. I just wanted to
> bring the focus on the problem. Who is going to order XO in U.P. and
> Bihar ?
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