[OLPC India] OLPC Small Scale developments India

[Edward Cherlin]

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On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 5:38 AM, Deepak Thakrar<deepak at thakrar.co.uk> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Over the past year I have been in touch with many educational based NGO’s
> who are interested in deploying OLPC on a small scale.
>
> I personally wanted to donate a couple of laptops to a charity in Ahmedabad.
>
> I think it would be really beneficial to hold a meeting of people with
> interest in OLPC India just to find out what everyone is doing and what
> their goals are.
>
> If there are many people interested in arranging a meeting for early
> September please contact me and I will try and organise something.
>
> Thanks & Regards
> Deepak Thakrar
> MangoTree Group
>
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> On 22/08/2009 18:33, "Ananya Guha" <nnyguha48 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I think that needs serious study Satish. Moreover OLPC is still seminal.
>
> Ananya S Guha.
>
>
> On 8/22/09, Satish Jha OLPC <sjha.olpc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> While we have taken some time to generate a little traction for OLPC in
> India with over a dozen stakeholders in serious negotiations and requests
> for XOs in six digits, we have been asked a few questions that may hopefully
> be addressed better with the experience of all of us in this community.
>
> It may seem rather obvious to most of us. However, its how we address them
> for the benefit of the enthusiasts who are willing to take the next steps
> that may help them move forward.
>
> For instance, how do we best demonstrate that by introducing XOs, there will
> be significant improvement in the quality of education?
>
> Are there any studies that refer to some benchmarks and the results compared
> to that?
>
> Or has something been done by anyone in a controlled environment?
>
> And obviously they want answers from within India rather than from the
> global environment.
>
> Has anyone thought about creating a sustainable model of deploying XOs in
> the context of our school education environment?
>
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