Hi friends, I found this email quite interesting as we in Pakistan are thinking on the same lines :) A couple of OLPC machines are provided to "Open source resource center" (OSRC) for testing purposes. I ve heard that In Pakistan they are soon going to test the OLPC in a few schools. I think in Nepal too, there should be a pilot testing of OLPC in 1-2 or 3 schools, and a study should be conducted which can give an indication weather or not this machine is worth buying. Few things are quite clear. 1) OLPC team is doing its best to make this project a success. They do have the technical and financial resources required to do that. 2) M$ and Intel's have joined hands to launch a similar machine which will cost $300 or so. ( This really means something :) 3) If a student in his first 5-6 years of education starts playing with linux and other OSS tools, he is most likely to continue this in his higher studies and professional career. This will really help get rid of dominant environment of the pirated proprietary OS in these third world countries.
But the important most factor for us in Pakistan or Nepal is to calculate its benefits against its cost , as for a 3rd world country even this 100 dollar is a lot of money. -- Regards, Sufyan Kakakhel OSRC, PSEB Ministry of IT, Pakistan. http://www.osrc.org.pk On 5/26/07, Sagun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
