[UgaBYTES] One Laptop per Child

[Ananya Guha]

Yes, Satish I would like to play a role.
 
Ananya S Guha.

--- On Sun, 7/12/08, good governance <sushashan at yahoo.com> wrote:

From: good governance <sushashan at yahoo.com>
Subject: [UgaBYTES] One Laptop per Child
To: ugabytes at lists.ugabytes.org
Date: Sunday, 7 December, 2008, 7:32 PM

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)


      
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