Comments on: Welcome: $35 tablet for education

By: OLPC India head rips into Aakash, calls it ‘pre-beta’ and questions its Indian-ness — Phone Mantra

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:14:13 +0000

[...] folks might remember that Nicholas Negroponte, the head of the OLPC Foundation, had offered India “free and open access to OLPC technology”, but the Indian government never took him up on [...]

By: Happy New Year! Reflections on OLPC in 2011 | One Laptop per Child

Happy New Year! Reflections on OLPC in 2011 | One Laptop per Child — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 04:49:06 +0000

[...] full-saturation laptop programs for older students are developing in India – an inexpensive tablet is being distributed to university students, and in Tamil Nadu dual-boot laptops from six different [...]

By: Negroponte offers good advice to India’s $35 computer project - Writing - Don Tapscott

Mon, 06 Jun 2011 03:04:13 +0000

[...] Negroponte, founder and chair of the One Laptop per Child Foundation, just posted an open letter to the Indian government, offering to share his hard-earned expertise and help the government [...]

By: Danielle

Danielle — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 19:15:38 +0000

Now that more than 9 months have passed since India’s human resources minister (you guessed it, there are no people in India. they are simply “human resources”) pronounced his grand plan to distribute $35 laptops, got his face time with the media and trashed India’s credibility to even understand what a “laptop” means twice over, can we ask the minister to stand up and be counted for misleading the world?

Why is it that smart and successful people get away with blatant lies? Misleading not just one person but a whole nation? The whole world?

Where is your laptop Mr Minister? Of course you may not have time for it any more. You may have interest in getting one portfolio after another, more face time on TV, some more trees burnt to print your name and pictures while the world wonders about your next move to keep your promise!

But you have accomplished a great deal: keeping a couple generations of India’s poor children from embracing their rightful future.

They will bless you and your children for letting them live in peace, not troubling them with learning and knowledge, eating a little less, swimming in ignorance and not being a threat to the new rulers of India who are busy lining their pockets for the next generations..

By: India’s $35 tablet an iPad killer? and one laptop per child? | The Nerdy Nurse

Tue, 15 Feb 2011 23:39:13 +0000

[...] charity organization. In fact, they even want to collaborate with the $35 tablet guys and wrote an open letter to them inviting them to share in the technology they have already pioneered.While I find this [...]

By: Alfred Kwame Mensah

Alfred Kwame Mensah — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 08:58:03 +0000

Hello everyone, Jamasi Methodist Junior High School is looking for sponsor this project for our school. The school is having only one desktop computer for about 120 students.
We are appealing to all philantropist who want to assist us in this project to Contact the school International Partnership Coordinator. ICT is a major subject now in Ghanaian schools about two years ago, but not a single computer giving to schools in Ghana.
Help us to build our children with modern technology. You can email our school on: jamasimeth_jhs@london.com

By: Slightly Unexpected Themes « Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff – Site News

Slightly Unexpected Themes « Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff – Site News — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 22:41:48 +0000

[...] you buy an iPad for $35? Well, India hopes to make one for less than [...]

By: Craig from Maine

Craig from Maine — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 18:25:29 +0000

Is anyone going to step up and give affordable laptops to American kids ? I guess not

By: purram

purram — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 11:35:53 +0000

You know what I think is gong to happen? Poor children will never get their hands on these laptops. The distributors will snitch them for their own kids and reselling. Then they will be genuinely offended if you try and talk to them about it. We need international relief workers to hand them out if we are are to see genuine improvement.

By: Dr Alfred Vella

Dr Alfred Vella — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 17:59:37 +0000

An excellent response to India’s initiative.

Has anyone tried the following:

Sell me 2 (or x) $100 laptops, send me 1and give the rest to a child of your choice?

It would be interesting to know just how many you need to sell to make the costs work out.

By: leiataua

leiataua — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 20:10:35 +0000

The offer is invaluable for future generations of students. As usual there will be spin offs for the private people but for now, Negroponte has done a most noble thing.
As the father of the internet commented when in Samoa(oceania) a few years back, sharing knowledge is power. Hope India will run with the olpc offer.

By: Jeya

Jeya — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 13:37:14 +0000

This is an excellent post. The Indian developers must keep those words in mind on point no:6 inn their future development of this laptop. But the big question now is, who is going to manufacture this laptop for this price. Is Indian Government will support and fund it’s manufacturing. Being an Indian, I could say that, this laptop should cross too many obstacles before it reaches the Indian market. let us wait.

By: travion vanhorn

travion vanhorn — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 15:24:57 +0000

my sound is not working.
I can’t play music on my laptop.
my language on scratch

By: OLPC India Now Targets 1M XOs In 2010; Negroponte Writes About $35 Tablet - MediaNama

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 05:27:37 +0000

[...] Read Negroponte’s open letter here. [...]

By: Siva Prakash, Jinja, Uganda

Siva Prakash, Jinja, Uganda — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 20:15:13 +0000

Wish I could develop some interesting programs using open ware for this $ 35 tablet ….

By: John D.Jayakumar

John D.Jayakumar — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 10:13:24 +0000

I hope and pray that Mr. Sibal really keeps his promise and he doesnot consider Mr. Negreponte’s offer as someone trying to hitchhike on his glory wagon of $35 tablet. I do hope the politicians who are very quick to raise their own salaries and perks will allow then this crumbs to fall from their table and I do earnestly hope the future generations empowered by this education tool will learn of their learning, think about their thinking and question their own questionings and not spare the ‘democratic’ tyrants, baffoons, illiterate criminals masquerading as leaders of this still lovely land

By: ¿Que tan barato puede llegar a ser el ordenador más barato del mundo? « La Trapaleta es lo de hoy

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:18:35 +0000

[...] operativo y aunque muchos se mostraron escépticos en un principio incluso la gente del OLPC le dio la bienvenidadeseándoles lo mejor y ofreciéndose a colaboraciones futuras con algunas ideas [...]