Considering the poor economic status of rural India, which is where the majority of the population lies, the plan for Nicholas Negroponte’s $100 laptop for schoolchildren has been thumbed down as expensive. India’s HR ministry is now pushing engineers and innovators to do the unthinkable. To make an almost impossible ‘$10 laptop’ possible.
Well, you might think that, it might take years for something like that to be developed using new technologies. The news is, 2 designs are already available and multiple firms including a Public Sector Undertaking Company – Semiconductor Complex, are started working on it.
The two designs with the ministry are from a final year engineering student of Vellore Institute of Technology and a researcher from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. So far, the cost of one laptop, after factoring in labor charges, is coming to $47 but the ministry feels the price will come down dramatically considering the fact that the demand would be for one million laptops.
Due to IPR issues, details have not been relieved, except that it will be based on a single board making it easy to repair and maintain.
If this project succeeds, a laptop for $10 could spark off a huge wave of development around the world and it would turn out to be a boon for all those students in third world countries to have an enriching education which is now possible only in developed countries.
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