[OLPC India] OLPC India Ahmedabad Pilot - Question for the current deployments

[Mike Dawson]

Hi All,

Greetings from Afghanistan - I hope that you got the email that I sent
directly re. the give many program and wish you the best of luck
getting the laptops...

Just one thing to clarify - the laptops in Afghanistan themselves are
donated by OLPC from the Give 1 Get 1 program.  USAID / ASMED has
provided the funds for developing local content, translation, and in
school expenses (such as the school server, networking, etc).

Regards,

-Mike

2009/2/22 Deepak Thakrar <deepak at thakrar.co.uk>:
> Hello, I have previously been involved in  an OLPC implementation in
> Afghanistan and I really want to see this initiative started in India.
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> I have been talking to an NGO in Ahmedabad which currently distributes
> computers to village schools on behalf of India council. I would like to
> provide this NGO with around 10 OLPC laptops just to get an initial
> reaction.
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> In Afghanistan the laptops were provided by USAID and my role was more
> concentrated on the economic development side.
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> For the India launch I am looking to self finance the initial purchase of
> the laptops and just test the waters. My question is to the people who
> initiated the current deployments, where did you purchase the laptops from?
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> Thanks & Regards
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> Deepak Thakrar
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> MangoTree Group
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