One Laptop Per Child Foundation Offers Olive Branch to Indian Government
Fri, 06 Aug 2010
Despite having fairly difficult relations with the Indian government in the past, Nicholas Negroponte has sent an open letter to Indian officials expressing his desire to help produce the proposed $35 touch screen laptop . Negroponte, the founder of the One Laptop Per Child foundation, was previously shunned by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) in his efforts to see XO laptops distributed to Indian schoolchildren.

It remains to see whether the Indian government take up Negroponte on his broad offer, though it at least provides the MHRD with a potential means of having the ambitious Sakshat notebook produced. The MHRD has previously failed to deliver on proposals for low cost computers, such as the Simputer PC, while plans for a $10 laptop were rubbished once details of the impotent computer were revealed.

Negroponte’s OLPC has hardly been a resounding success, but has successfully distributed notebooks around the world despite several stumbling blocks, such as failed relations with Intel and a lack of funding. With differences over how to market the scheme, Intel instead opted to produce a rival Classmate laptop, which has gone on to sell in far greater numbers than the OLPC’s XO laptop .

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