Orissa 2020: People's Own State

Thursday, November 17, 2005

$100 laptop...Can it help in Orissa Education Sector?

See http://laptop.media.mit.edu/ for more information about the $100 laptop. The website mentions that the laptop won't be available for sale. Only to be distributed to schools directly through large government initiatives. Keeping this minds, Orissa should prepare to make the most of this initiative. The Orissa Govt., people, NGOs all need to think about this scheme and see how we can benefit the most. We should figure out the following:

1. First how Orissa get hold of the laptops to be distributed across the students. We need to really proactive and make people listen to us at the right places and at the right time.

2. Prepare softwares and teaching material to be put on this laptops so that students really benefit from them. The laptop should be more than just a Leo Toy and students should be really gaining out of that. Only then Orissa will have a generation of highly educated students who can take further my dream of "Orissa 2020: People's Own State".

I guess we will be looking at these again in future.

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