Dear Access Indians, I am caught up in some urgent work. However, I think some of you would surely find time to participate in the debate copied below. If you are not a part of the concerned mailing group ([email protected]), do joine it. If you face any dificulty there, as a temporary solution, you may write to me your opinions and I will forward it to the group. The debate is not merely two or three persons as such, on the contrary, it represents certain widespread oppinions. Best Vikas
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Pankaj Jain <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 16:56:30 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [Arkitect India] Responding to challenged people's needs. To: [email protected] But the cost of treating challenged population is very high. In India rich enough to be able to afford this, at this stage, as a matter of policy. You will come back with drivel about large expenditure on defence, the cost Ambani's home or Adarsh Society or Lavasa township, but even after distributing such amounts over 1.1 billion Indians, we shall remain very poor. Please decide your priorities.Will you prefer improving education for 15 very poor children or one disadvantaged child? It might sound heart-less to make this trade-off, but in real world, this is needed, because in the cacaphony of various special interests, the interest of average poor-lower income is always traded off. Pankaj --- On Tue, 1/18/11, Rama Agnihotri <[email protected]> wrote: From: Rama Agnihotri <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Arkitect India] OLPC at a village school: from IIT Mumbai students To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, January 18, 2011, 9:48 PM I do hope we all listen to George. Rama (Rama Kant Agnihotri) 81 B, Pocket AC 2 Shalimar Bagh Delhi 110088 From: George Abraham <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Sent: Mon, 17 January, 2011 7:14:32 Subject: Re: [Arkitect India] OLPC at a village school: from IIT Mumbai students Hope all of you development Pandits are also including the nearly 10% disabled population when you design and plan your innovations for reaching education to the poorest of the poor? My involvement with the blind in Orissa and other parts of India has thrown up two major issues. 1. Lack of access to quality primary and secondary education has excluded the disabled population from being a part of the community 2. The widespread ignorance amongst the educationists and the policy makers regarding the potential and possibilities for the disabled to be a part of the HR of our country have marginalised the disabled over the years. I believe that the intellectuals and social activists on this group must include the disabled in all development plans. I would assert that the development status of a Nation should be determined by the status of the disabled population of the country. As it is often said, it is the quality of life of the lowest rungs of the social ladder that determines the standard of life of the Nation. Regards, George George Abraham CEO Score Foundation 17/107, LGF Vikram Vihar, Lajpatnagar 4 New Delhi 110024 PH:91 11 26472581, 91 11 46070396 Mob: 91 9810934040, 91 9810001181 Email: [email protected] Skype: georgeabraham13 ----- Original Message ----- From: "ambarish rai" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2011 11:11 AM Subject: Re: [Arkitect India] OLPC at a village school: from IIT Mumbai students Dear Satish Jha ji Nice to see your effort by reaching the remote areas with One Laptop Per Child. Can you recall our meeting earlier held at Delhi? We are trying to build up a movement for equitable quality to all, while equal opportunity is missing in the RTE,Act. Quality of Govt schools couldn't be improved without providing equal opportunity to all in terms of fund allocation, monitoring,infrastructural facilities, recruitments of trained teachers and all having KVs...also other good schools. regards, ambarish rai convener, people's campaign for common school system (PCCSS) On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Satish Jha <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Some students of IIT Mumbai made the following video of the OLPC > experience > at a village school near Mumbai. > Children at this school have been using OLPC for the past 3 years to > amazing results. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFkM9GVVu_4 > > Thought it may interest you. > > On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 4:07 AM, Ram Krishnaswamy < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> >> > > -- > Satish Jha > One Cambridge Center > Cambridge, MA 02142 > T: 301 841 7422 > F:301560 4909 > www.olpcindia.net > http://twitter.com/olpcindia > ________________ > > > <#12d894291283d755_> > <#12d894291283d755_> <#12d894291283d755_> > <#12d894291283d755_> > > > ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links -- Vikas Gupta Assistant Professor, Department of History, Social Science Building, Arts Faculty, Delhi University, Delhi 110007. Residence: D II/1, University Flats, Maurice Nagar, Delhi 110007. Ph: 011-27662347 & 09818193875 Email: [email protected]
