India Says No To One Laptop Per Child
The Times of India (via slashdot) reports that India has rejected the idea of OLPC:
“India must not allow itself to be used for experimentation with children in this area,” the ministry has said.
Indian leaders don’t believe that the ROI of such a project would be as good as other projects they can undertake:
It would be impossible to justify an expenditure of this scale on a debatable scheme when public funds continue to be in inadequate supply for well-established needs listed in different policy documents,” the ministry said.
This isn’t good press for OLPC but India is only one country out of many that face a Digital Divide problem.
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