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India Rejects 100$ Laptop Per Child Project
Nigeria may have ordered 1 million of the OLPC laptops, but India isn't saying "Thank you, come again" to Nicholas Negroponte and his band of MIT hooligans. The Indian Ministry of Education said the laptop was "paedagogically suspect" and that "We cannot visualise a situation for decades when we can go beyone the pilot stage. We need classrooms and teachers more urgently than fancy tools."
He goes on to say: "We do not think that the idea of Prof Negroponte is mature enough to be taken seriously at this stage and no major country is presently following this. Even inside America, there is not much enthusiasm about this." Harsh words, as Nigeria probably doesn't like being called a minor country.
Although Nigeria ordered 1 million, they won't be getting their shipments until other countries jump in and push the total order number up around 5 or 10 million units. – Jason Chen
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Sakshat, India’s $10 laptop
India has caught everyone’s attention by announcing a laptop that would cost just $10 to own.
The Government will display a prototype of the Rs. 500 ($10) laptop in Tirupati on February 3
when the ICT department will launch its National Mission on Education.
As of now, only few features are known like the Wi-Fi, LAN, expandable memory
which we assume is the storage and not RAM and will operate with just 2 watt of power.
The tech blogosophere is aflutter with news that Indian government officials are planning
to announce a new $10 laptop as the centerpiece of an ambitious e-learning campaign
to connect thousands of colleges around the country.
The computer, known as Sakshat, which translates as "before your eyes",
will be launched as part of a new Rs46bn "national mission for education".
This envisages a network of laptops from which students can access lectures,
coursework and specialist help from anywhere in India, triggering a revolution
in education. A number of publishers have reportedly agreed to upload portions
of their textbooks on to the system.
The only specs they've released suggest that the laptop will have Wi-Fi and about 2GB RAM.
Although Indian companies has a history of launching super cheap products
(such as the Tato Nano $2,500 car) there are many who are skeptical that
the computer can actually be produced as cheaply as is being suggested:
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Thanks
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India Rejects 100$ Laptop Per Child Project
Nigeria may have ordered 1 million of the OLPC laptops, but India isn't saying "Thank you, come again" to Nicholas Negroponte and his band of MIT hooligans. The Indian Ministry of Education said the laptop was "paedagogically suspect" and that "We cannot visualise a situation for decades when we can go beyone the pilot stage. We need classrooms and teachers more urgently than fancy tools."
He goes on to say: "We do not think that the idea of Prof Negroponte is mature enough to be taken seriously at this stage and no major country is presently following this. Even inside America, there is not much enthusiasm about this." Harsh words, as Nigeria probably doesn't like being called a minor country.
Although Nigeria ordered 1 million, they won't be getting their shipments until other countries jump in and push the total order number up around 5 or 10 million units. – Jason Chen
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Sakshat, India’s $10 laptop
India has caught everyone’s attention by announcing a laptop that would cost just $10 to own.
The Government will display a prototype of the Rs. 500 ($10) laptop in Tirupati on February 3
when the ICT department will launch its National Mission on Education.
As of now, only few features are known like the Wi-Fi, LAN, expandable memory
which we assume is the storage and not RAM and will operate with just 2 watt of power.
The tech blogosophere is aflutter with news that Indian government officials are planning
to announce a new $10 laptop as the centerpiece of an ambitious e-learning campaign
to connect thousands of colleges around the country.
The computer, known as Sakshat, which translates as "before your eyes",
will be launched as part of a new Rs46bn "national mission for education".
This envisages a network of laptops from which students can access lectures,
coursework and specialist help from anywhere in India, triggering a revolution
in education. A number of publishers have reportedly agreed to upload portions
of their textbooks on to the system.
The only specs they've released suggest that the laptop will have Wi-Fi and about 2GB RAM.
Although Indian companies has a history of launching super cheap products
(such as the Tato Nano $2,500 car) there are many who are skeptical that
the computer can actually be produced as cheaply as is being suggested:
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Thanks
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....it'll also impart some pc knowledge to the children 
