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<DIV><FONT color=#000080 size=2>Dear OLPC India Team,</FONT></DIV>
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href=""><FONT size=2>Auroville</FONT></A><FONT color=#000000 size=2> is a unique
international city in Tamil Nadu (India), 10km north of Pondicherry, founded in
1968 in accordance with the </FONT><A href=""><FONT size=2>Charter of
Auroville</FONT></A><FONT size=2><FONT color=#000000>. The city aspires to be an
international center for <SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">collective
life in pursuit of Human Unity and related Education and Research. </SPAN>The
city now has a population of 2,000 residents from 41 countries. </FONT><FONT
color=#000000>The goals, plans and the direction of Auroville were
</FONT></FONT><A href=""><FONT color=#0000ff size=2>endorsed by
UNESCO</FONT></A><FONT color=#000000 size=2> on several occasions. The progress
made by Auroville and the unique sustainable development modes adopted by
Auroville have generated an enormous amount of </FONT><A href=""><FONT
color=#0000ff size=2>support</FONT></A><FONT color=#000000 size=2> for Auroville
within India and abroad. </FONT></SPAN></FONT><FONT color=#000080><SPAN
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href=""><FONT color=#0000ff size=2>L’Avenir d’Auroville--Auroville’s
Future</FONT></A><FONT size=2>, the Auroville Planning & Development
Research Organization, is mandated to plan, develop and construct the Future
City for an international community of 50,000 people.
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size=2>Right from the start, the concept of Auroville as a '<B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Univercity</B>' fired the imagination of
many. Auroville aspires to be an open and dynamic centre of learning and
teaching; a place where, ideally, all residents are students as well as
teachers; and a place where the basic economy will be an exchange of knowledge,
an economy of teaching and learning. </FONT><A href=""><FONT color=#0000ff
size=2>Sri Aurobindo International Institute for Educational Research
(SAIIER)</FONT></A><FONT size=2> was created in 1984 to continue and broaden the
work that was already under way in developing the educational capacity of
Auroville, and to support advances in educational and cultural research.
Presently, there are some 120 researchers, </FONT><A href=""><FONT color=#0000ff
size=2>twenty two units</FONT></A><FONT size=2> including ten schools and six
unique </FONT><A href=""><FONT color=#0000ff size=2>Educational
Centers</FONT></A><FONT size=2> working under the SAIIER
umbrella.</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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size=2>I am JV Avadhanulu, Coordinator of Information Systems
Infrastructure, </FONT><FONT size=2>L'avenir d'Auroville (Future of Auroville).
I looked at XO-1 ( I have a unit with me for the past 15 days) and find that
OLPC can transform education to a new level in Auroville Schools and hence
Auroville. Apart from the schools, I think XO has the potential to
be deployed as an information and interaction terminal in Auroville.
This may be a unique application for XO / OLPC. I am seeking your help and
advise to conduct a pilot in one school and then roll out in other schools. I
need your advise on how best to accomplish this, especially in the light of the
negative stance taken by the Government of
India.</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000080 size=2>Regards,<BR>JV Avadhanulu</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000080 size=2>Coordinator, Information Systems
Infrastructure,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000080 size=2>L'avenir d'Auroville (Future of
Auroville)<BR>+91-9443797563</FONT></DIV></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>