<div dir="ltr"><div class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'"><font size="2">After various discussions with industrialists, activists, policy makers, media folks and OLPC colleagues we have established teh following framework for partnering with OLPC in India. It will be reveiwed periodically from the perspective of reaching the goals of One Laptop Per Child in India and that is to help every child etering the primary school have access to a personal XO.</font></span></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'"><font size="3">OLPC India has a substantial mandate – to help every child across the length and breadth of India to have the benefit of digital learning technologies that OLPC creates, or may create, to help them become <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>global citizens. </font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'"><font size="3">The<span style="COLOR: red"> </span>challenge , at the initial stage, is<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>to annually engage about 20 million children entering the primary school system across the length and the breadth of the nation. Clearly<span style="COLOR: red">,</span> it requires each and every one of us to come forward<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>to help each of these children having the educational facilities that technologies of our times can afford.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'"><font size="3">While we hope the governments of all the states will come forward to embrace it as the learning tool of choice for all their primary school going children, we need the support of individuals with resources to contribute, corporations that believe in their corporate social responsibilities, foundations that aid developmental initiatives, members of Parliament<span style="COLOR: red"> </span>and Assemblies<span style="COLOR: red"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>who have discretionary developmental funds at their disposal and everyone else who is committed to making India a nation of people with all the necessary skills that 21<sup>st</sup> century <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>demands from us.</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'"><font size="3">To this end, OLPC India will partner, collaborate, cooperate and engage with <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>everyone willing from within the nation and anyone from abroad.<span style="COLOR: red"> </span></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'"><font size="3">OLPC India will follow the model outlined below:</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><font size="3"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'">Lead Partners</span></b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'">: Each of the Lead Partners will undertake to support at least 5% <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>of all children entering the primary schools across the country. They will have a seat on the Board of Directors of OLPC India and an opportunity to participate in shaping its goals and directions as well as co-development of any technology where they are demonstrably ready, able and willing to join hands.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><font size="3"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'">National Partners</span></b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'">: Each of the National Partners will undertake to support at least 1% of all children entering the primary schools across the country. They will have a seat on the Advisory Board of OLPC India and an opportunity to participate in co-development of any technology where they are demonstrably ready, able and willing to join hands with OLPC. <span style="COLOR: blue"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><font size="3"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'">State Partner</span></b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'">: Each of the State Partners will undertake to support at least 5% all children entering the primary school within a state. They will have a seat on the state level OLPC Advisory Board and will have an opportunity to participate in localization efforts. An organization may choose to be a Partner in several States.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><font size="3"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'">District Partners</span></b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'">: Each of the District Partners will undertake to support at least 10% of all primary school entering children within the district and will have a seat on the District Level Advisory Board. An organization may choose to be a Partner in several Districts.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><font size="3"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'">Block Level Partners</span></b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'">: The Block Level Partners will undertake to support at least 20% <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>of all primary school entering children within the Block and will have a seat on the District Level Advisory Board. An organization may choose to be a Partner in several Blocks.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><font size="3"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'">Village Level Partner</span></b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'">: Each of the Village Level Partners will undertake to support all children entering the primary school within a village. They will have a seat on the state level OLPC Advisory Board and will have an opportunity to participate in localization efforts. An organization may choose to be a Partner in several States.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><font size="3"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'">Individual Partner</span></b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'">: Individual Partners may undertake to support any number of children starting with just one. They will have no organizational privileges but will be able to join relevant listservs and engage in OLPC discussions in the area of their choosing.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><font size="3"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'">Give One Get One (G1G1)</span></b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'">: Any organization willing to support G1G1 in India must commit to have 100,000 XOs in inventory for sales as requested by the G1G1 buyer. The other 100,000 will be distributed to needy children in regions selected by OLPC India.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'"><font size="3"></font></span></p><br>-- <br>-- <br>Satish Jha <br>President & CEO <br>OLPC India <br>
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