[UgaBYTES] One Laptop per Child

[good governance]

Our schooling system across the rural world is in shambles.. I visited about 100 villages in the past few months and the story is common across the board.. no school buildings, one or no teachers, many classes in one, no books, facilities or environment.. Then I went to the 5 schools where we run pilots with OLPC laptops. The same environment as above but they all have XOs and some training to go forward.. Its a new world for teh children as well as the teachers and the villages. Its changed their view of life..what they can do, what they aspire to and suddenly their language has changed and so have their responses.. In other words, what 60 years of thinking, debates, conversations etc could not change, introducing a new technology did.  I am confident there will be sceptics around regardless of the results and we need them at all times to keep us honest. But the results are overwhelming. Someone else created a technology that may be god for us to
 leapfrog with. Its up to us to assess it and take the next step forward. I for one would vote for it and therefore am volunteering to take the message forward.  Will you join me in spreading the message out? To your friends, donors, policymakers, leaders, corporations, the rich who may want to give back to society? Anyone? Let them try before they opine or conclude?www.laptop.org Satish JhaPresident & CEOOne Laptop per Child (OLPC India)