<div><br>Marc</div>
<div>I find your honest open style of writing so refreshing.</div>
<div>Half baked ,ill-informed information and people get away as experts.</div>
<div>We have become like the proverbial cat who beleives that because it has closed its eyes ,night has set in.</div>
<div>Blind and silly.</div>
<div>You are so right in pointing out how backward we till are,how little has reached the people and how much suffering is taken for granted in the rural areas.</div>
<div>G<br></div>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><br>Message: 3<br>Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:58:43 +0100<br>From: "Marc Valentin" <<a href="mailto:mvalentin@oeuvredespains.org">mvalentin@oeuvredespains.org</a>><br>
Subject: Re: [OLPC India] Article in Indiatimes<br><br>This article is not serious...<br>This kind of laptop is not for children of 15 ! This is much too old. Ok,<br>right, the girl is 10 but...<br>Their target audience are children of developing countries. Not the daughter<br>
of a 'rich and educated' journalist or the son of a 'rich and educated'<br>American.<br>To do a serious article, they had to go in a village and give the computer<br>to a child having both parents uneducated. But that is maybe too difficult ?<br>
It certainly is for Indian journalists... But that is not all, they also<br>don't want to show the reality of the country, India is not an IT paradise.<br>Accepting the true reality is the first step for development but many<br>
educated Indians are not ready for that.<br>Do you know India has the world higher percentage of leprosy ?<br><br></blockquote></div>