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India Out Innovates the Americans...Even on Social Ventures
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by Leonard Brody | July 29, 2008 at 11:38 am
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This is hilarious...the Indian government has decided that the folks at MIT who are supposed to be innovating and helping with the digital divide in countries like India, are just not good enough at it. So, instead of the 100 buck laptop, they are producing one for 10. I love the way the world is shaping up.
The government whose Ministry of Education dismissed Nick Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child computer as "pedagogically suspect" in 2006 is now backing a plan to design, build and sell a model priced at 400 rupees, or about ten bucks.
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at 11:43 on July 29th, 2008
Leonard Brody, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 22:28 on July 29th, 2008
Thanks for your post, Indian government is very good in making big grandoise plan but they never deliver. Hope this time they defy that.
at 07:34 on July 30th, 2008
Leonard Brody, I like this story. It's good stuff.
It seems that after making the cheapest car, it seems like the Indians are at it again... A 10 dollar laptop.. amazing.
at 11:30 on August 21st, 2008
Leonard Brody, I like this story. It's good stuff.
Yes! Free markets are better than state or capitalist/elite class-rigged markets, but People are worth more than money, and things are worth doing for love. However, love aside, cheap laptops are going to be an economic boost as these kids minds and souls are going to be enriched by access to knowledge, information and the global community