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<div>I have received some observations regarding the feasibility of the numbers outlines in the partnership model.</div>
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<div>The overall structure of partnerships is to be inclusive, aggregate the initiatives to help them become viable, reduce the cost of deployment, share learning, engage as many people and organizations who believe in the cause of OLPC as possible and move forward as quickly as we can.</div>
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<div>Peru and Uruguay have already broken the barriers by going beyond 100,000 and 1 Million respectively. and given the scale of needs, India's financial strengths to make it happen and the scale of CSR programs of corporations in India, it should be feasible.</div>
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<div>India of 2008 currently spends over a couple billion dollars on CSRs annually. A fraction of that can trigger building the momentum to help us reach the goal.</div>
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<div>India has had a couple of pilots with 20 or 30 children in a school each. The next level of projects have to be at the schools that have more than 100 or 1000 children in a school or a cluster of schools in a geography.</div>
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<div>Large corporations seeking to make OLPC XO deployment as part of their corporate socila responsibility (CSR) initiatives have to start with any of the various categories outlined in the partnership model and that does not exclude anyone, regardless of size and geography and offers opportunities to scale up.</div>
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