Here is the laptop that helps children become creative learners, critical thinkers, problem solvers and forget rote learning. By adopting them a country may unleash the kind of creativity it saw in the entrepreneurship that found expression after India freed its economy a bit in the early 1990s.

1. One Laptop Per Child India Foundation Transforming “Learning” Satish Jha Chairman, OLPC India Foundation satish@olpci.org www.olpcindia.net +91 99100 22922

2. India currently has the largest illiterate population of any nation on earth 2

3. Poor have aspirations beyond survival They recognize that only education can help achieve aspirations. And they are willing to invest in the future. Can our current educational eco-system alone deliver on these aspirations? 3

4. Significant progress in reducing out of school children But challenges of quality and adequacy of current education format remain. Can doing more of the same really make our children compete for opportunities in 2020? 4

5. The solution needs to be … Future ready – ‘the cell-phone of education’ Transformational – generational leaps Doable – practical, implementable and accepted by the stakeholders Financially viable – entrepreneurial thinking to make it available at $1 per week An idea originated in villages like India’s, Africa and wherever we saw deprivation and lack of access to what we thought was a human right– spreading across the globe 5

6. What is OLPC [one laptop per child] A project designed to help underprivileged children access sustainable education that is in sync with today’s needs. A rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning. It is a tool for education that creates skill sets that can transform lives. 6

7. Our laptops are capable of transforming the way a child “learns” by combining technology & pedagogy OLPC produces a unique laptop: pioneered a new generation of solid state hard disk, zero maintenance, village friendly computing primary school market currently being addressed Some of the features unique to OLPC laptop: low power consumption of 2 watts networking without internet water proof keyboard stringent ROHS norms dual mode operation sunlight friendly WIFI mesh networking electric power can be produced manually and through solar new “sugar” interface designed open Source First Green laptop Proven and market tested in 40 countries 7

9. No hard drive, no fans

10. Droppable

11. Extra rigid shell

12. Bumper (replaceable)

13. Shock mounted LCD

14. Moisture/dust/dirt resistant

15. Keyboard

16. USB, microphone etc - protected

17. Connector reinforcement

18. Transformer hinge8

19. OLPC has major partners in both private & public sectors 9

20. OLPC’s presence has rapidly spread to 41 countries worldwide since 2007…. “With the laptop we can say that our school is really elevated because the children are really learning more... They see themselves discovering things that they have never been doing before.” — Mrs. M., Galadima School, Abuja, Nigeria 10

21. ….and it has proved to be successful! Largest deployments since 2007 Peru – 594,000 Uruguay – 430,000 Rwanda – 110,000 Argentina – 60,000 Key Milestones * numbers as of March 2010 11

22. OLPC has gained a lot of recognition across the globe IDSA - Business Week, Gold Awards, (Product) (Strategy) 2008 Red Dot Design Award, 2008 London Design Museum's Brit Insurance Design of the Year, 2008 INDEX "Community" Award, 2007 ID Magazine "Concept Design", 2007 Spark Award - Product Award, 2007 IF Product Design Award, 2006 Chicago Athenaeum – Good Design Award, 2006 In the words of Mr. Kofi Annan: "When they start reaching the hands of the world's children, these robust and versatile machines will enable kids to become more active in their own learning. Children will be able to learn by doing, not just through instruction or rote memorization. And they will be able to open a new front in their education: peer-to-peer learning." 12

23. OLPC Schools in India today Current Deployments Govt of Manipur, Imphal, Manipur Katha Khazana School, Govindpuri, Kalkaji, New Delhi Kusgaon Village School, Distt Pune, Maharashtra Udaan Schools, Uttarakhand (Dr Veena Sethi) Keekerwale Primary School, Shriganganagar, Rajasthan Chiragh Grammar School, Uttar Pradesh Khairat school, Khairat-Dhangarwada Village, Maharashtra Parikrma Center for Learning, Bangalore, Karnataka Aradhna Convent School, Bangalore, Karnataka Holy Mother School, Nashik, Maharasthra Saint-Anthony School, Dugawar Auroville, Tamil Nadu Mandal Parishad Primary School, Aziznagar AP VenuUdayar Middle School, Palayanur village, Tamil Nadu. Poorva Maadhyamik Vidyalaya, Bhagmalpur, Distt Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh Chiragh Grammar School, Meerut (U.P.) and Project Writeup Belgaum District, Karnataka Ahmedabad, Gujarat funded by MangoTree Group 13

24. Some of the states that have approved or are currently considering OLPC’s revolutionary educational strategy Our aim is to establish OLPC’s presence in all 28 states and 7 union territories 14

25. XO laptops benefit children AND teachers, parents and the society as a whole 15

26. Let us make this happen – A Laptop for Every Child Adopt a village for Total Cost of only Rs. 16,500 per child! 16

27. OLPC Generation 2: E-book Mode Questions? 17