India snubs $100 laptop initiative

Unlike Nigeria, which welcomed the One Laptop Per Child initiative, ordering 1 million of the US$100 laptops last week, India is apparently snubbing the concept. “We need classrooms and teachers more urgently than fancy tools,” wrote Education Secretary Sudeep Banerjee in a letter recommending against the laptop idea. Find details in Technology News World. For additional Reading Today Daily articles on this topic see articles 001873 and 1261.