In India, work began on a "ten-dollar" laptop
The Times of India newspaper reports that the Ministry of Labor Development ( MHRD ) of India has begun work on a “popular” laptop project worth about $ 10. The need for such a development in the ministry is explained by the excessively high price of the “one hundred dollar laptop” of the OLPC project, which now officially amounts to $ 176 and is unlikely to be significantly reduced in the near future.
To completely natural reproaches of excessive optimism and distrustful statements from all sides, officials respond with data on the current achievements of developers. Two groups of scientists from the Velor Institute of Technology ( VIT ) and the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore ( IISc ) are working on the project , and they are already considering ways to reduce the cost of a PC to $ 47. However, any details are not disclosed, ostensibly to protect their intellectual property.
However, expecting demand for such cheap laptops in quantities measured in millions of pieces, the Ministry does not say how these plans correlate with their recent statements about the doubtfulness of the use of computers for children's education, in which the OLPC leadership convinces the whole world. But earlier in the MHRD expressed serious concerns about such large-scale experiments on children and saw in them the secret commercial interest of Western corporations. What caused such a sharp change of opinion is unknown.
To completely natural reproaches of excessive optimism and distrustful statements from all sides, officials respond with data on the current achievements of developers. Two groups of scientists from the Velor Institute of Technology ( VIT ) and the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore ( IISc ) are working on the project , and they are already considering ways to reduce the cost of a PC to $ 47. However, any details are not disclosed, ostensibly to protect their intellectual property.
However, expecting demand for such cheap laptops in quantities measured in millions of pieces, the Ministry does not say how these plans correlate with their recent statements about the doubtfulness of the use of computers for children's education, in which the OLPC leadership convinces the whole world. But earlier in the MHRD expressed serious concerns about such large-scale experiments on children and saw in them the secret commercial interest of Western corporations. What caused such a sharp change of opinion is unknown.
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/8080/
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