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<div>I cannot talk about things I am not privy to. As far as I know, we need partners who have the capacity to scale up. Our partners in the past not contributed any funds so far and a non profit organization OLPC has been incurring significant costs for pilots. We need multiple partners. Its a project that requires supporting about 20 million children entering the primary school system every year in India. The total for the age group OLPC is targeting in India is about 150 million. That's a huge undertaking and we need partners who are willing to contribute a significant part of their Corporate Social Responsibility budget to the cause, and quickly.</div>
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<div>Our discussions with various business houses are very encouraging and these are being held with the board and their chairmen. We have to focus our energy in that direction. </div>
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<div>We need every partner we can get and we need partners who are passionate about it and have resources to commit as we speak. It will be great to have this groups' thoughts on how to move forward and what each of us can do to achieve that..</div>
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<div>As of now this is what I have to share. Thanks for your understanding.</div>
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<div>Satish Jha<br><br></div>
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<div class="Wj3C7c"> >> I consider your observations far from positive in tone and I do not have an<br>>> answer for you. If you are keen on supporting OLPC India, I will appreciate<br>>> if we look forward. I do not have answers for things past. Now that we have<br>
>> a team in place, we will create a website as well. That will take its own<br>>> time. Cambridge Center is the official address of OLPC. We can inform about<br>>> what we plan and what we achieve now on. I am closing this discussion and<br>
>> shall greatly appreciate if questions are brought forth in a spirit of<br>>> moving forward.<br>>><br>>> Thanks much.<br>><br>><br>> Satish,<br>><br>> I really don't think you can close the discussion without a few<br>
> clarifications. There appear to be several different entities. There<br>> is<br>><br>> 1) Satish Jha, President OLPC India<br>> 2) Reliance's Khairat pilot<br>> 3) Digital Bridge Foundation<br>> 4) <a href="http://olpc.co.in/" target="_blank">olpc.co.in</a><br>
> 5) the large list of volunteers on this list.<br>><br>> I'm all for moving forward, but considering that we, the volunteers,<br>> were here a long time before you joined, the least you owe us is a<br>> connect-the-dots answer.<br>
><br>> Sameer<br>> --<br>> Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.<br>> Associate Professor of Information Systems<br>> San Francisco State University<br>> San Francisco CA 94132 USA<br>> <a href="http://verma.sfsu.edu/" target="_blank">http://verma.sfsu.edu/</a><br>
> <a href="http://opensource.sfsu.edu/" target="_blank">http://opensource.sfsu.edu/</a><br>><br></div></div></blockquote></div> </div>