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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=text2><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>One
of my friends from Harvard Alumni Group had the following to say:<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=text2><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span
lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>I'm familiar
with this great initiative. The question I would have is this: do you have
studies on how the village changes when children get the XO? In a poor village
can the child be "only" a school learner, or does s/he have other
roles to play? How does the XO impact those roles? </span></font></span><font
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Arial;color:black'><br>
<span class=text2>Coming off reviewing a major book on bio-tech, I'm impressed
with the fact that we don't see things enough as flow, as context, as ecology.
The XO must have major impact, but is it to pull the child out of the village,
mentally, and into the Mumbai-global economy world? Or does it lead to solving
community problems and enhancing everyone's potential? The child connecting
adults to resources, for instance. </span><br>
<span class=text2>Questions, I see, not advice, and perhaps you have good
answers already. Or perhaps this holistic view helps somehow.</span></span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=6 color=green face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:green'>Give a laptop, Get a
laptop; Change the World</span></font><font size=6 color=navy face=Verdana><span
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