Thursday, December 4, 2008

From Sujay Jha

Hi

Just to introduce myself my name is Sujay Jha . I am Advisor OLPC India . OLPC means one laptop per child a dream project of MIT scientist particularly the founder Nicholas Negroponte

Essentially the concept of OLPC emerged out of Professor Nicholas Negroponte's experience with how connected laptops transformed the lives of children in various countries across continents, from Sudan to Cambodia to Costa Rica. Professor Negroponte wondered about the potential that could be unlocked through access to connected computing and learning at primary schools. By the same token, channelizing limited resource spent in India on education for children to provide them the means of learning, self expression and explorations could help us create a global citizens of tomorrow that may improve not only the quality of lives of these children, it may lead to an all encompassing improvement in quality of life for all citizens.

I personally believe that this is great social and non profit intiative that will transform lives of millions not only in India but across the globe . The greater objective to bring education to the bottom of pyramid will be met by this initiative . We are in the era of inclusive capitalism where every poor has to treated on par with others who are exclusive .Unless the people who live in the bottom of pyramid are transformed we will not able to create a better society . Ofcourse this mission caters to every body else who can contribute to buy and donate to the children of India .