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<div>I am not in the loop regarding OLPC plans for India. However, I just wish to suggest that finding shortcomings is good if the purpose is to make the strategy and operations efficient. Please make the effort to encourage/criticize the team in a way that helps them to take a step forward. </div>
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<div>I know about you through Amit, who has always appreciated your involvment and feedback. There is no question that you are a committed and a caring volunteer.</div>
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<div>The beginning of July 2006 was just fine enough that OLPC would have never been around India for decades. Progress has come along slowly with success and mistakes. <a href="http://olpc.co.in/" target="_blank">olpc.co.in</a> has been an initiative belonging to the latter category. I believe the concerned team knows about it, and will take action in the best interests of everybody, sometime soon. </div>
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<div>I apologize if I wrote anything that was hurtful to anybody concerned with this memo. My only request. OLPC should be a peaceful project.</div>
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<div>Regards,</div>
<div>Manu</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 9:13 PM, Marc Valentin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mvalentin@oeuvredespains.org" target="_blank">mvalentin@oeuvredespains.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Hi Satish,<br>First, as far as I know, these are your first posts on the OLPC indian<br>list, so warm 'welcome' !<br>
Amit Bhatia... Prakash Nanda... Puja, I never saw any post from these<br>people on the list...<br>Wait, give me 5 minutes, I will get the information about them from<br>the website of OLPC india : <a href="http://www.olpc.co.in/" target="_blank">http://www.olpc.co.in</a> Oups... nothing. :-)<br>
What I mean is : what is the credibility of all this ?<br>It is like the indian astonauts going to mars (or moon ?) project or<br>the broadband internet for all by 2010 project : a lot of "24x7<br>management level senior professionals" involved with big talks and<br>
that is all. Don't you realize the international community is laughing<br>at this ? Except when there are tragedies, news from India in the<br>columns of the newspapers are always fun. Like that time when an<br>official said India reached the goals of the Millenium in advance,<br>
that primary education for all in India was a reality ! "Incredible<br>India", that is very true. (Maybe you know this touristic publicity we<br>see here in Europe). :-)<br>Now, what I would say, bring up the website, give transparency to the<br>
organization, insist on what was done more than on what will be done<br>and we will start believing in this project.<br>-marc valentin-<br><a href="http://www.oeuvredespains.org/" target="_blank">http://www.OeuvreDesPains.org</a><br>
<br>On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Satish Jha OLPC <<a href="mailto:satish@laptop.org" target="_blank">satish@laptop.org</a>> wrote:<br>> Listservs are typically agnostic in these matters. However, I have<br>> experienced that my spam folder has been rather active lately and, in case I<br>
> fail to pay attention, loss of mails is sometimes an unintended consequence.<br>><br>> OLPC did not have an organization until mid - July 2008. It donated 500<br>> laptops to the local team that was keen on creating pilots or showcases.<br>
> Without an organization it is often hard to achieve goals.<br>><br>> Now we have a a nucleus organization in place.<br>><br>> Amit Bhatia is a well known professional in the education segment. He was a<br>
> Senior Vice President of Macmillan India and also had a couple stints as CEO<br>> of organizations. I am rather impressed at his recognition among decision<br>> makers in the country and he has got off to a great start. He is our Adviser<br>
> on national outreach, buy ins and closing large projects.<br>><br>> Prakash Nanda is a seasoned communicator and was also the Director of a well<br>> know educational institution in Delhi. He worked as an Assistant Editor of<br>
> the Times of India (that is, reporting to the Editor and writing editorials<br>> and edit page articles) and then was head of a division of Sahara Television<br>> network. He has written four books on matters of international affairs and<br>
> state and is a professional development communicator.<br>><br>> Puja has been the executive assistant to a couple CEOs and most importantly<br>> managed the TiE Delhi offices before joining us.<br>><br>> We will have state level coordinators as we go along.<br>
><br>> These are all 24x7 management level senior professionals with a record of<br>> achievement as best as we can imagine.<br>><br>> This team is focused on achieving the targets. It works 24x7 as needed. This<br>
> is all they do. And we have some serious negotiations going on along the<br>> lines of the levels we are talking about.<br>><br>> That said, one laptop per child can only succeed with everyone's support.<br>
> Its critical to remain positive and create a virtuous circle of goodwill and<br>> bring together all those who are passionate about this cause in ways that we<br>> can achieve our goals.<br>><br>> Thanks much.<br>
<div>><br>> On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 4:10 AM, Marc Valentin <<a href="mailto:mvalentin@oeuvredespains.org" target="_blank">mvalentin@oeuvredespains.org</a>><br>> wrote:<br>>><br>>> Hi,<br>>> I didn't get this email from Satish Jha. Is it normal ? Is there some<br>
>> problem again with the indian list ? Or it was posted somewhere else ?<br>>> About the content, I almost fell from my seat. As always in India,<br>>> people think BIG but just see the facts. So far it took one year to<br>
>> import 500 machines and the organization is struggling to put just a<br>>> simple wiki website online ! (Sorry Amit ;-) )<br>>> By the way, we are still waiting to watch the record of the "OLPC<br>
>> India day" of august.<br>>> >><br></div>>> >> --<br>>> >> --<br>
<div>>><br>>><br>> On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 4:10 AM, Marc Valentin <<a href="mailto:mvalentin@oeuvredespains.org" target="_blank">mvalentin@oeuvredespains.org</a>><br>> wrote:<br>>><br>>> Hi,<br>
>> I didn't get this email from Satish Jha. Is it normal ? Is there some<br>>> problem again with the indian list ? Or it was posted somewhere else ?<br>>> About the content, I almost fell from my seat. As always in India,<br>
>> people think BIG but just see the facts. So far it took one year to<br>>> import 500 machines and the organization is struggling to put just a<br>>> simple wiki website online ! (Sorry Amit ;-) )<br>>> By the way, we are still waiting to watch the record of the "OLPC<br>
>> India day" of august.<br></div>
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