Dear OLPC team, I think it was some of the good questions that Sameer asked last time during the workshop. I think we need to answer these questions so that we can get better support from general public in Nepal. I am not against OLPC personally but I think those questions were really good questions that he asked and worth thinking about.
1. OLPC has never been tested how can we be sure that it will last 5 years? 2. Government spends 40 to 50 US $ in a year per student in Nepal. Does this include the cost for teacher, books and uniform for the children. 3. Won't there be any extra cost apart from 150$ while deploying laptops to the kids? 4. After buying laptops will the kids be really free from buying books and note books? 5. If yes what will the kids do when they are out of primary schools, how would they know how to write on notebooks? 6. Will there be an another 100 $ laptops for the kids which government will have to buy for them, when they are out of primary school. 7. How will we get money for computer maintainence, network infrastructure? -- Warm Regards, Sagun Dhakhwa Sambad Project, Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya Patan Dhoka, Lalitpur, Nepal Mobile:00977-9841-310488 homepage: www.outlines-rnd.com/sagun ================================================================= ==INITIATING OPEN COURSE WARE ( www.sixyadaan.org ) in NEPAL== ================================================================= --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ FOSS Nepal mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
