India refuses to give its children laptops

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Nick Douglas

07/27/06 09:00AM

Filed to: India

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American MIT scientist Nicholas Negroponte's project to outfit every child with a $100 laptop ain't gonna cut it for India. The Indian Ministry of Education rejected plans to buy cheap laptops for Indian children.

India's per capita GDP is $3300. Fifty million of its billion people are online. But hey, can't blame Nicholas for not scoping out his intended market. He was too busy finding just the right shade of orange for his little toy.

India rejects One Laptop Per Child [The Register]

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Conrad Nick Douglas 07/27/06 09:24AM

You're dead on. They've spent far too much time researching the design of the laptop when the thing that really matters is the distribution... and getting countries to buy them. To be honest, they should have just made the thing as cheap and as functional as possible - screw design, it just gets in the way.