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Article: Laptop largesse ; OLPC wants to replicate its success in the US in India, but faces logistical hurdles along the way.
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- Business Today
- Article date:
- December 14, 2008
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With 110 million children in the 5-12 age group, India is an
obvious target for the ambitious One Laptop Per Child (OLPC)
initiative pioneered by tech visionary Nicholas Negroponte. For
Satish Jha, President, OLPC India, this will be a second connection
with young children; the first happened in the 1980s, when his wife
Amita was part of the anti-polio movement in India and saw the
number of children afflicted come down from over 600,000 to around
100,000 in a few years.
Similarly, we think OLPC is a vaccination against ignorance,says
Jha. While OLPC in the US gifts one free XO laptop for every branded
laptop purchased on online retailer Amazon, the organisation faces a
challenge outside ...