India

OLPC India Success: 75,000 XO Laptops for Manipur State

Posted on Thu, 08/26/2010 - 09:12

The Hueiyen News Service reports that the Manipur state government of India has ordered 75,000 XO laptops to implement a wider One Laptop Per Child deployment in state schools. This is in addition to the 1,000 laptops already bought and distributed to four schools - two each from Imphal East and West districts recently.

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Soon: Manipur state children

So congrats to OLPC India to finally making this order happen even with this history of this order from the OLPC India Wiki:

From Bollywood to BBC, Bubbly is a Voice in the Audio Blogging World

Posted on Thu, 08/19/2010 - 18:40

Bubble Motion, a provider of mobile messaging and social media applications, launched Bubbly this year in India, making strides in the mobile audio blogging world. Audio blogging is a form of blogging in which the medium is audio content. Bubbly works by call and record, and thus can be adapted in areas with high mobile penetration and low Internet access, such as India.

There is No OLPC India Community of Any Form, Shape or Sort

Posted on Tue, 08/17/2010 - 07:41

In a recent post, Satish Jha, President and CEO of OLPC India asks How would you accelerate the adoption of OLPC in India?.

A primary issue with the effort around OLPC in India has been the lack of investment in building up a community around the project. While there has been breakthroughs around the deployment and proof-of-concept runs, there hasn't been a single sustained thrust in ensuring that there is a buy-in with a larger group of people who contribute. Which means that while there are significant areas where OLPC could do with community love, there hasn't been any plans made in public on them.

The Mobile Minute: JQuery for Mobile, a New Mobile Magazine, Twitter Usage on the Weekends, and Indian Farmers Going Mobile

Posted on Mon, 08/16/2010 - 13:09

Today's Mobile Minute brings you coverage on how mobiles are helping farmers in India, jquery on mobile, a comparison of patterns between mobile and desktop Twitter usage, and a mobile-only magazine. 

Mobile Minute: Blackberry Ban Updates, a Mobile Youth Survey, and a Financial mServices Risk Matrix

Posted on Tue, 08/10/2010 - 12:02

We've got news on Saudi Arabia's and the United Arab Emirates' moves to ban BlackBerry, the release of the TakingITMobile mobile youth activism survey, a review of livestreaming services for mobiles, USAID's mobile financial services risk matrix, and a report that reveals the niche uses for location-based mobile services.

Surveying ICT Use in Education in India and South Asia

Posted on Fri, 08/06/2010 - 07:22

Survey of ICT and Education in India and South AsiaThe World Bank's infoDev program recently released the latest volume in its periodic surveys of the use of information and communication technology in the education sector around the world. 

Laptops for education: $10, $35, $100 and points in between (but not above!)

Posted on Tue, 08/03/2010 - 16:47

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When I started working full time exploring issues related to the use of educational technologies in developing countries about a dozen years ago, many ministries of education would express their desires for introducing computers in schools by saying things like 'We want something that can enable students and teachers to do x and y and z'. 

How would you accelerate the adoption of OLPC in India?

Posted on Wed, 07/28/2010 - 08:59

OLPC has already spread across some 40 countries. More than 2 million children are learning with the help of its laptops named XO. In India, however, while various states have approved the project and are piloting it, the central government has not taken a pro-active stance to roll it out and thereby letting 96% of Indian children remain generations behind the rest of the world. I have heard three main hurdles to it:

1. Its not cheap enough

What Mobile Operators in India Have to Do for Useful Rural Expansion

Posted on Tue, 07/27/2010 - 17:00

India is a country of villages, with over 70% of its population living in rural areas. For mobile operators, this means future mobile subscribers in the country are going to come from India’s villages.
Between 2002 and 2006, mobile penetration increased by a more than 40% in India (source ITU). Still, rural penetration is low, making up just over one fifth of the total mobile user base in India, as reported by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India in 2007.  The future of the mobile industry is exanding in rural India, but what do mobile operators need to do to tap into this market?

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