India Backs Out Of $100 Laptop Program
27 Jul, 2006, 6:30 pm IST | by
Priyanka Pradhan
| 
| The Indian government has decided to back out of the ‘One Laptop Per Child' (OLPC) programme, designed to provide children and educators in developing countries with a simple-to-use computer costing $100 each. The Ministry of Human Resource Development reconsidered its earlier decision to implement the program offered by MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte, saying there are no proven benefits of providing all children with their own laptops. In a letter to India's Planning Commission, Education Secretary Sudeep Banerjee reportedly wrote, "The case for giving a computer to every single person is pedagogically suspect. It may actually be detrimental to the growth of creative and analytical abilities of the child". He further mentioned that the education ministry should spend its money to strengthen secondary education in the country in terms of classrooms and teachers, rather than on "fancy tools". Negroponte will not begin assembling and shipping units until some 5 million to 10 million computers are ordered and paid for, so OLPC's success depends largely on its adoption in large countries and India's decision could represent a major blow to the initiative. The project is supported by AMD, Google and Red Hat and includes countries like China, Brazil, Egypt, Thailand and Nigeria, which has already placed an order for 1 million laptops. Read more here. |
Tags: One Laptop Per Child programme , Nicholas Negroponte , MIT , Nigeria , India , AMD , Google , RedHat
Mixx
Facebook
Twitter
Digg
delicious
reddit
MySpace
StumbleUpon
LinkedIn
OLPC Reveals Second Generation XO
The OLPC non-profit organization has announced that work is already underway on a second-generation version of its XO laptop computer.
OLPC/Microsoft In Chats For Dual-Boot Version
Microsoft to Test Windows on $100 Laptop
5 Million OLPCs To Be Shipped By End Of '07
OLPC To Ship With Embedded Kill Switch
Microsoft Developing Entry-level XP for OLPC
OLPC To Be Sold On ebay
Leaked Images, Availability, Pricing,
Specs, Pre-order
25 May, 2012, 12:33 PM IST
7.0
Today, we revisit the Dell XPS 15z in a slightly different configuration. The XPS 15z carries with it the same ...
775 views
_011517074205_160x90.jpg "Epson Stylus Photo R3000")
BlackBerry Curve 9320 announced in India...
Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos GSM announced
Future iPhone, iPads may offer optical...
Google's official 7-inch tablet...
About Us | Site Profile | Tech2 Team | IBNLive News | IBNLive Hindi News | Cricket News | Indian Stock Market | Policy | T & C
Copyright © 2011, Tech2.com India - A Network 18 India Venture
