India Rejects One Laptop per Child Program

ex-geek writes "Seems like Negroponte's One Laptop per Child program has been rejected by the Ministry of Human Resource Development of India. Among the objections are concerns about the effect of extensive laptop use on children's health. Better uses for the monies, which would be required to roll out the OLPC project, are also named. Most insightful however is the observation that not one industrial country has so far implemented a similar program for its children, which casts doubt as to what the pedagogical use for notebooks in class really is."

Comments

Re:How about

[jamesshuang]

Perhaps Microsoft has already lent a "helping" hand :-p

Anyone know about the Microsoft infiltration of India? :-p

Re:MS counter move

[ZepHead]

"Bang Le Desh" is what an Indian dude does when his car radio starts conking out.

Re:Passing the buck

[cpatil]

You really need some lessons. Go check out the CIA pages on India.

Re:Passing the buck

[vivin]

Your ignorance is astounding:

"India: While striving to achieve independence from foreign suppliers, India's ballistic missile programs still benefited from the acquisition of foreign equipment and technology. India sought items for these programs during the reporting period primarily from Russia and Western Europe. New Delhi successfully flight-tested its newest MRBM, the Agni-2, in April 1999 after months of preparations and continued apace with its SRBM program. India continues to pursue the development of nuclear weapons, and its underground nuclear tests in May 1998 were a significant milestone. The acquisition of foreign equipment could benefit New Delhi in its efforts to develop and produce more sophisticated nuclear weapons. India obtained some foreign nuclear-related assistance during the second half of 1999 from a variety of sources worldwide, including in Russia and Western Europe." - "Unclassified Report to Congress on the Acquisition of Technology Relating to Weapons of Mass Destruction and Advanced Conventional Munitions, July 1 Through December 31, 1999," Report released by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), August 9, 2000."

India and WMD

India uses similar delivery systems for its (indigenously developed) Space Program, which have actually been pretty successful (eg. GSLV).

Chronology of Indian Missile Development
From almost 20 years ago