[p2p-research] Fwd: [witfor] A small step for Manipur, a huge leap for India's children!

Wed Oct 14 15:46:39 CEST 2009

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From: Satish Jha <jha.satish at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 2:55 AM
Subject: [witfor] A small step for Manipur, a huge leap for India's
children!
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India took a small step towards transforming the world of our future
generations as Manipur Chief Minister announced to make OLPC the state's
education strategy last week.

http://e-pao.net/GP.asp?src=15..071009.oct09

Imphal, Oct 12, 2009: The Chief Minister of Manipur announced today that the
state government has decided to embrace One Laptop per Child (OLPC) as its
official education strategy.

Speaking to newsmen at a public gathering near Imphal the Chief Minister
said that the decision was taken after about a year long examination of its
merits and the state has ordered 1000 laptops with its internal resources
and has asked for another 72,000 laptops under various programs being taken
up jointly with the central government.

OLPC XOs are the pioneering laptop that have made state of the art education
in the face of infrastructural challengees with the help of computers that
are designed for learning possible in an affordable and connected way.

OLPC claims that these laptops cost less than it takes to simply power up a
traditional desktop, does not accept lack of power as a constraint by
resorting to options such as solar power, hand crank, foot pedal, cow power
or any other source that may work, is moisture proof, dust proof, shock
proof and has a non-glare screen that is sun friendly, has zero maintenance
and even a child is supposed to be able to repair it and comes with software
that are designed for learning as distinct from the traditional laptops that
address productivity issues.

OLPC India, that started its operations in August 2008, will help the state
deploy these laptops as well and has offered them the entire course
curriculum along with the laptop for the pilot phase. The content will
eventually be developed along the lines demonstrated by OLE, Nepal with
modifications advised by the state.

It is significant that for the past several years media has widely reported
that OLPC had been rejected by the government of India. However, OLPC
sources point out that any observations made by the government related to at
least a year before the laptop was productionised and were made in absence
of any studies or data that could be available only after the laptops had
been produced and deployed.

OLPC sources estimate that there are about 1.5 Million OLPC laptops already
being used by children in over 30 countries and over a million are on back
order.

For India, its the first statement by a government leader embracing OLPC as
its education strategy. OLPC India sources were not available to respond to
the queries on this development, however.

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