[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for
this link. ]
“When the OLPC first made news, a prominent official in the HRD
ministry of the Indian government had gone on record snubbing the
OLPC project ($100 laptop), even making a preposterous claim that
work was under way to create India’s own $10 laptop. But as things
have worked out, OLPC has already made an entry into India in the
form of a pilot project in a rural primary school in a village in
the state of Maharasthra.“The OLPC is currently being field tested at the Khairat primary
school…”